Re: WIP patch for hint bit i/o mitigation

Merlin Moncure escribió:

> Maybe abstracting 'last xid cache'  along with hint bit management out
> of both transam.c and tqual.c into something like 'hints.c' is
> appropriate, but that's a more invasive change.

It would be good to have such a patch to measure/compare performance of
both approaches.  It does seem like the more invasive change might be
more expensive for both the transam.c and the tqual.c uses, though; and
it's not clear that there's anything to be gained by having them be
together in a single module.

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