Re: [HACKERS] WAL logging freezing

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Huh, but the log would not be flushed for each operation that the vacuum
> logs.  Only when it's going to commit.

It strikes me that the vacuum cost delay feature omits to consider
generation of WAL records as a cost factor.  It may not be a big problem
though, as long as we can limit the number of records created to one or
two per page --- then you can see it as just a component of the "dirtied
a page" cost.  If we made a separate WAL record for each tuple then it
could be important to account for.

			regards, tom lane