Re: brin autosummarization -- autovacuum "work items"

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Well, the number of work items is currently fixed; but if you have many
> BRIN indexes, then you'd overflow (lose requests).  By using DSA I am
> making it easy to patch this afterwards so that an arbitrary number of
> requests can be recorded.

But that could also use an arbitrarily large amount of memory, and any
leaks will be cluster-lifespan.

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