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Re: WIP - Add ability to constrain backend temporary file space

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

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From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-18T19:44:34Z
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Second, the main issue with these sorts of macro-counters has generally
> been their locking effect on concurrent activity.  Have you been able to
> run any tests which try to run lots of small externally-sorted queries
> at once on a multi-core machine, and checked the effect on throughput?

Since it's apparently a per-backend limit, that doesn't seem relevant.

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