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From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, "Jignesh K. Shah" <J.K.Shah@sun.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
Subject: Re: Benchmark Data requested
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:43:36 +0000
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:06 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>>
>> Le lundi 04 février 2008, Jignesh K. Shah a écrit :

>>> Multiple table loads ( 1 per table) spawned via script  is bit better
>>> but hits wal problems.
>> pgloader will too hit the WAL problem, but it still may have its benefits, or 
>> at least we will soon (you can already if you take it from CVS) be able to 
>> measure if the parallel loading at the client side is a good idea perf. wise.
> 
> Should be able to reduce lock contention, but not overall WAL volume.

In the case of a bulk upload to an empty table (or partition?) could you 
not optimise the WAL away? That is, shouldn't the WAL basically be a 
simple transformation of the on-disk blocks? You'd have to explicitly 
sync the file(s) for the table/indexes of course, and you'd need some 
work-around for WAL shipping, but it might be worth it for you chaps 
with large imports.

-- 
   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd



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