Re: Performance Improvement by reducing WAL for Update Operation

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Mike Blackwell <mike(dot)blackwell(at)rrd(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Performance Improvement by reducing WAL for Update Operation
Date: 2014-02-05 18:57:57
Message-ID: CAM3SWZQnmEpiACpD1qX+HO0CzLVCkbcAdTdjS9iikbmJhhYKtw@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:50 AM, Heikki Linnakangas
<hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think there's zero overlap. They're completely complimentary features.
>> It's not like normal WAL records have an irrelevant volume.
>
>
> Correct. Compressing a full-page image happens on the first update after a
> checkpoint, and the diff between old and new tuple is not used in that case.

Uh, I really just meant that one thing that might overlap is
considerations around the choice of compression algorithm. I think
that there was some useful discussion of that on the other thread as
well.

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Peter Geoghegan

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