Re: Sorting writes during checkpoint
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki.takahiro@oss.ntt.co.jp>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-07-04T16:05:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > Anyway, I note that we don't have an easy way of sorting by tablespace, Say what? tablespace is the first component of relfilenode. > but I'm sure it would be possible to look up the tablespace for a file > within a plugin. If the information weren't readily available from relfilenode, it would *not* be possible for a bufmgr plugin to look it up. bufmgr is much too low-level to be dependent on performing catalog lookups. regards, tom lane