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Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

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From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-11-10T14:18:31Z
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Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Now, O_SYNC is going to force every write to the disk.  If we have a
> transaction that has to write lots of buffers (has to write them to
> reuse the shared buffer)

So make the background writer/checkpointer keeping the LRU head clean. I 
explained that 3 times now.


Jan

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