Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni(at)sime(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2004-05-17 20:42:42
Message-ID: 40A923C2.60702@Yahoo.com
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Mario Weilguni wrote:

>>
>> Interesting.
>> We have made COMPLETELY different experiences.
>>
>> There is one question people ask me daily: "When can we have sychronous
>> replication and PITR?".
>> Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in
>> stability and "enterprise" features such as those I have mentioned above.
>
> I doubt that. Having deployed several 7.4 databases, the first customers ask
> (of course not in technical speech, but in the meaning) when the problem with
> checkpoint hogging system down is solved. This is a really serious issue,
> especially when using drbd + ext3. The system will become really unresponsive
> when checkpoint is running.
>
> I heavily await 7.5 because of the background writer.

Have you done some more extensive tests with 7.5 already and if so, what
are your experiences with it so far?

Jan

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