* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [001116 13:31] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> writes:
> > It might make more sense to keep a private copy of the last time
> > the file was modified per-backend by that particular backend and
> > a timestamp of the last fsync shared globally so one can forgo the
> > fsync if "it hasn't been dirtied by me since the last fsync"
> > This would provide a rendevous point for the fsync call although
> > cost more as one would need to periodically call gettimeofday to
> > set the modified by me timestamp as well as the post-fsync shared
> > timestamp.
>
> That's the hard way to do it. We just need to keep track of the
> endpoint of the log as of the last fsync. You need to fsync (after
> returning from sleep()) iff your commit record position > fsync
> endpoint. No need to ask the kernel for time-of-day.
Well that breaks when you move to a overwriting storage manager,
however if you use oid instead that optimization would survive
the change to a overwriting storage manager. ?
-Alfred