Re: Automatic free space map filling
Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
From: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-03-04T02:11:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 03:19:46PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Note, for this purpose you don't need to keep a bit per page. The > OS I/O system will load 64k+ (8+ pages) in one go so one bit per 8 > pages would be sufficient. AFAIK that's entirely dependant on the filesystem and how it's created (and possibly the OS as well). So arbitrarily deciding each bit is 8 pages is a bad idea. I could see allowing for a setting that determins how many pages per bit, though, but I think we're also getting ahead of ourselves. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461