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Create a new dedicated Postgres process, "wal writer", which exists to write and fsync WAL at convenient intervals. For the moment it just tries to offload this work from backends, but soon it will be responsible for guaranteeing a maximum delay before asynchronously-committed transactions will be flushed to disk. This is a portion of Simon Riggs' async-commit patch, committed to CVS separately because a background WAL writer seems like it might be a good idea independently of the async-commit feature. I rebased walwriter.c on bgwriter.c because it seemed like a more appropriate way of handling signals; while the startup/shutdown logic in postmaster.c is more like autovac because we want walwriter to quit before we start the shutdown checkpoint.
2007-07-24 06:54:09 +02:00
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* walwriter.h
* Exports from postmaster/walwriter.c.
*
Update copyright for the year 2010.
2010-01-02 17:58:17 +01:00
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2010, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
Create a new dedicated Postgres process, "wal writer", which exists to write and fsync WAL at convenient intervals. For the moment it just tries to offload this work from backends, but soon it will be responsible for guaranteeing a maximum delay before asynchronously-committed transactions will be flushed to disk. This is a portion of Simon Riggs' async-commit patch, committed to CVS separately because a background WAL writer seems like it might be a good idea independently of the async-commit feature. I rebased walwriter.c on bgwriter.c because it seemed like a more appropriate way of handling signals; while the startup/shutdown logic in postmaster.c is more like autovac because we want walwriter to quit before we start the shutdown checkpoint.
2007-07-24 06:54:09 +02:00
*
Update copyright for the year 2010.
2010-01-02 17:58:17 +01:00
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/include/postmaster/walwriter.h,v 1.4 2010/01/02 16:58:08 momjian Exp $
Create a new dedicated Postgres process, "wal writer", which exists to write and fsync WAL at convenient intervals. For the moment it just tries to offload this work from backends, but soon it will be responsible for guaranteeing a maximum delay before asynchronously-committed transactions will be flushed to disk. This is a portion of Simon Riggs' async-commit patch, committed to CVS separately because a background WAL writer seems like it might be a good idea independently of the async-commit feature. I rebased walwriter.c on bgwriter.c because it seemed like a more appropriate way of handling signals; while the startup/shutdown logic in postmaster.c is more like autovac because we want walwriter to quit before we start the shutdown checkpoint.
2007-07-24 06:54:09 +02:00
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
#ifndef _WALWRITER_H
#define _WALWRITER_H
/* GUC options */
extern int WalWriterDelay;
extern void WalWriterMain(void);
#endif /* _WALWRITER_H */