Re: checkpointer continuous flushing

Hi,

On 12/16/2015 08:27 PM, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
> Hello Tomas,
>
>> I'm planning to do some thorough benchmarking of the patches proposed
>> in this thread, on various types of hardware (10k SAS drives and
>> SSDs). But is that actually needed? I see Andres did some testing, as
>> he posted summary of the results on 11/12, but I don't see any actual
>> results or even info about what benchmarks were done (pgbench?).
>>
>> If yes, do we only want to compare 0001-ckpt-14-andres.patch against
>> master, or do we need to test one of the previous Fabien's patches?
>
> My 0.02€,
>
> Although I disagree with some aspects of Andres patch, I'm not a
> committer and I'm tired of arguing. I'm just planing to do minor changes
> to Andres version to fix a potential issue if the file is closed which
> flushing is in progress, but that will not change the overall shape of it.
>
> So testing on Andres version seems relevant to me.

The patch no longer applies to master. Can someone rebase it?

regards

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