Re: CLOG contention

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-01-05T20:10:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> I think that the reason it's historically been a constant is that the
> original coding took advantage of having a compile-time-constant number
> of buffers --- but since we went over to the common SLRU infrastructure
> for several different logs, there's no longer any benefit whatever to
> using a simple constant.

You astound me, you really do.

Parameterised slru buffer sizes were proposed about for 8.3 and opposed by you.

I guess we all reserve the right to change our minds...

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