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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: James Pang <jamespang886@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: select statements have many shared_blks_dirtied and written
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:34:03 +0100
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On Tue, 2024-02-20 at 16:20 +0800, James Pang wrote:
> We have several sql "select ... from ... where  ..." ,from pg_stat_statements,
> we found the select sql has many shared_blks_dirtied, shared_blks_written.
> is it by  "hint bits" updates ?  when checkpoint just completed, we saw many
> wal_fpi , wal_bytes with this select sql too.

Yes, that are probably hint bits.

One way to avoid that is to VACUUM the table after a bulk load, that
will set hint bits.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe





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