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Re: How much do the hint bits help?

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-22T16:06:15Z
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Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> well, simon's point that hint bits complicate checksum may nor may not
> be the case, but no hint bits = less i/o = less checksumming (unless
> you checksum around the hint bits).

I think you're optimistically assuming the extra clog accesses don't
cost any I/O.

			regards, tom lane