Re: Patch: add timing of buffer I/O requests

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
Cc: "Tomas Vondra" <tv@fuzzy.cz>, "Greg Stark" <stark@mit.edu>, "Greg Smith" <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-11-29T01:24:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr> writes:
> That sounds good for other interesting things, which entails being able
> to have timing information attached to the XID sequence.  If we go this
> way, how far are we from having a ticker in PostgreSQL?

Those of us who are trying to get rid of idle-state process wakeups will
protest any such thing with vigor.

			regards, tom lane