Re: [WIP] cache estimates, cache access cost

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-06-14T21:17:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Excerpts from Cédric Villemain's message of mar jun 14 17:10:20 -0400 2011:

> If we can have ALTER TABLE running on heavy workload, why not.
> I am bit scared by the effect of such reloption, it focus on HINT
> oriented strategy when I would like to allow a dynamic strategy from
> the server. This work is not done and may not work, so a reloption is
> good at least as a backup  (and is more in the idea suggested by Tom
> and others)

Hmm, sounds like yet another use case for pg_class_nt.  Why do these
keep popping up?

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