Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > * Andres Freund (and...@anarazel.de) wrote: >> What do you mean by that? That the overhead of writing it out more >> frequently wouldn't be too bad? Or that we shouldn't "unnecessarily" add >> more fields to it?
> Mostly just that the added overhead in writing it out more frequently > wouldn't be too bad. My concern about it was not at all about performance, but that every time you write it is a new opportunity for the filesystem to lose or corrupt the data. regards, tom lane