Re: [pgsql-www] pg_autovacuum is nice ... but ...

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>

From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
To: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-11-05T12:33:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Right but we can create a new segment and use it too. I don't know how
> these segments are used but I used to do it in the past, of course you have
> to create a memory manager that handle not ccntinuous segments.

The TelegraphCQ folks have already done this:

   http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2003-05/msg00336.php

I haven't had a chance to look at the patch, though.

-Neil