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From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
To: Dave Cramer <pg@fastcrypt.com>
Cc: postgresql performance list <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PITR performance costs
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:31:33 +0100
Message-ID: <465B03E5.1000109@enterprisedb.com> (raw)
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Dave Cramer wrote:
> Since PITR has to enable archiving does this not increase the amount of 
> disk I/O required ?

There's no difference in normal DML operations, but some bulk operations 
like CREATE INDEX that don't otherwise generate WAL, need to be WAL 
logged when archiving is enabled.

-- 
   Heikki Linnakangas
   EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com



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