Re: WAL to RAW devices ?
- From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
- To: Alex Vinogradovs <AVinogradovs(at)clearpathnet(dot)com>
- Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
- Subject: Re: WAL to RAW devices ?
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:21:18 -0400
- Message-id: <3703.1188602478@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>
Alex Vinogradovs <AVinogradovs(at)clearpathnet(dot)com> writes:
> The idea is to have say 2 raw devices which would be used as 2 WAL
> segments (round-robin). RO servers will go after the one that's not used
> at a given time with something like xlogdump utility and produce INSERT
> statements to be then executed locally. After that import is done, a
> command will be issued to the WO server to switch to the other segment
> so that the cycle can repeat.
Why would you insist on these being raw devices? Do you enjoy writing
filesystems from scratch?
regards, tom lane
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