Re: limiting hint bit I/O

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Anyway, there are so many ideas in this area, it's hard to keep them
> all straight.  Personally, if I was going to start with something,
> it would probably be to better establish what the impact is on
> various workloads of *eliminating* hint bits.
 
> I know some people find them useful for forensics to a degree that
> they would prefer not to see this,

Um, yeah, I think you're having a problem keeping all the ideas straight
;-).  The argument about forensics has to do with how soon we're willing
to freeze tuples, ie replace the XID with a constant.  Not about hint
bits.

			regards, tom lane