Re: log chunking broken with large queries under load

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-04-04T21:07:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 04/04/2012 03:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>> The idea I had in mind was to compensate for adding list-removal logic
>> by getting rid of the concept of an unused entry.  If the removal is
>> conditional then you can't do that and you end up with the complications
>> of both methods.  Anyway I've not tried to code it yet.
> I concluded this would probably be a loser performance-wise, because it
> would add a couple of palloc/pfree cycles to the processing of each
> multi-chunk message, whether there was any contention or not.  So I
> committed the patch with just some cosmetic cleanups.
>
> 			

OK, thanks for doing this.

cheers

andrew