Re: slow dropping of tables, DropRelFileNodeBuffers, tas

Sergey Koposov <koposov@ast.cam.ac.uk>

From: Sergey Koposov <koposov@ast.cam.ac.uk>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2012-06-07T13:12:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Simon Riggs wrote:

>>> Sounds less good and we'd need reasonable proof it actually did
>>> anything useful without being dangerous.
>>
>> Doing an initial unlocked test speeds things up another 2.69 fold (on
>> top of 3.55 for your patch) for me, with 1GB of shared buffers.  That
>> seems like it should be worthwhile.
>>
>> How do we go about getting reasonable proof that it is safe?
>
> That's enough for me.

So is it planned to apply that patch for 9.2 ?

Thanks,
 	S

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