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Re: disk writes within a transaction

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On 02/16/2017 11:33 AM, 2xlp - ListSubscriptions wrote:
Can someone enlighten me to how postgres handles disk writing?  I've read some generic remarks about buffers, but that's about it.

We have a chunk of code that calls Postgres in a less-than-optimal way within a transaction block.  I'm wondering where to prioritize fixing it, as the traffic on the wire isn't an issue.

Basically the code looks like this:

	begin;
	update foo set foo.a='1' where foo.bar = 1;
	...
	update foo set foo.b='2' where foo.bar = 1;
	...
	update foo set foo.c='3' where foo.bar = 1;
	commit;

If the updates are likely to be a memory based operation, consolidating them can wait.  If they are likely to hit the disk, I should schedule refactoring this code sooner than later.

I would suggest taking a look at:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/wal-configuration.html



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