Feature request: write consolidation

Could BDB do write-consolidation on memp_sync(), so that if several writes to the same record exist, only the newest write is actually effected? I believe this could provide a significant performance boost in certain usage situations, with no negatives.
A bit of background...
In my web-based application, the same record will tend to be written over and over with slight changes, while a single user is logged in and performs various actions.
For example, I have a record of "books on my wishlist", and users will tend to add a few books in a session, over (say) a 10 minute period of that day's use of my site.
I'm currently delaying database updating, by doing dbenv->memp_sync() every 5 minutes. This greatly increases write throughput, I've found.
However, an analysis of those delayed writes finds that about 1/2 of those writes are replacements of the same record, and thus of no use.
Could BDB improve dbenv->memp_sync() so that it discards previous writes to the same record, and only actually writes-to-disk the final data?
I believe this is a trivial patch to make to memp_sync() -- it could just write out the backlog in most-recent-first order, and then skip writes to keys that have a newer write that was already done in that memp_sync() call.
-john

Hi John,
I don't completely understand the context of your question.
The DbEnv::memp_sync call works at the level of database pages. If you overwrite a record on a page multiple times, then call memp_sync, the page containing the record will be written once (which I think is what you are asking for).
So can I ask how you analyzed the writes? Could the data have been going to the log rather than the database?
Lastly, memp_sync doesn't make any strong guarantees about durability: it just flushes whatever dirty pages it finds. If there are concurrent writes, or a crash partway through, there is no guarantee that data will be consistent on disk. In other words, if you don't need durability, there's no reason to call memp_sync, but if you do need durability you would be better off with transactions and calling DbEnv::txn_checkpoint.
Regards,
Michael Cahill, Oracle.

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