Re: Why could different data in a table be processed with different performance?

2018-09-26 Thread Vladimir Ryabtsev
> Since you have a very big toast table, given you are using spinning disks, I think that increasing the block size will bring benefits. But will it worsen caching? I will have lesser slots in cache. Also will it affect required storage space? >> consecutive runs with SAME parameters do NOT hit th

reference regarding write load during different stages of checkpoint

2018-09-26 Thread Justin Pryzby
I'm hoping to find a document I once read about the write load. As best I can recall, it looked something like this: . at beginning of (spread) checkpoint, larger than average write load to pg_wal/, due to full_page_writes; . during most of checkpoint, decreasing WAL due to FPW, . towards end