"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Wow, o.k. well it is something we (the community) really should look at for
> 8.4. I am surprised that it is slower than just walking through the xlogs on
> recovery. I am sure there is a reason just surprised.
Well in the worst case it has to do nearly as much work as the original
database did. And it only gets to use 1 cpu so it can only have one i/o
request pending.
bgwriter is started already when doing recovery, right? Perhaps things could
be helped by telling bgwriter to behave differently during recovery.
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