Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnzyv-0007k7-Si for pgsql-committers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:01:18 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnzyu-0002DF-FS for pgsql-committers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:01:16 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnzyu-0002D5-6z; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:01:16 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gnzyr-0002Pw-V5; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 06:01:15 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id x0S61A0x009647; Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:01:10 -0500 From: Tom Lane To: Amit Kapila cc: Andrew Gierth , Amit Kapila , PostgreSQL Hackers , John Naylor , pgsql-committers@lists.postgresql.org Subject: Re: pgsql: Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations. In-reply-to: References: <877eepjt3p.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> <8872.1548654531@sss.pgh.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Amit Kapila message dated "Mon, 28 Jan 2019 11:26:11 +0530" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <9645.1548655270.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2019 01:01:10 -0500 Message-ID: <9646.1548655270@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Precedence: bulk Amit Kapila writes: >> I don't know what the common thread is here, but you don't get to leave >> the buildfarm broken this badly while you figure it out. > Sure, but I am wondering why none of this ever shown in local tests, > as we have done quite some testing related to pgbench as well. Not sure, but I notice that two of the three critters I just pointed to use force_parallel_mode. Dromedary does not, but it's old and slow. Kind of smells like a timing problem ... regards, tom lane