From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Heavy write activity on first vacuum of fresh TOAST data
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:26:56 -0300
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> We might be able to have bgwriter set hint bits on dirty blocks, but the
> success of that would depend upon the transit time of blocks through the
> cache, i.e. it might be totally ineffective. So might be just overhead
> for the bgwriter and worse, could divert bgwriter attention away from
> what its supposed to be doing. That's a lot of work to fiddle with the
> knobs to improve things and there's higher things on the list AFAICS.
I don't think that works, because the bgwriter has no access to the
catalogs, therefore it cannot examine the page contents. To bgwriter,
pages are opaque.
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