Re: Block level parallel vacuum WIP

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Block level parallel vacuum WIP
Date: 2016-08-23 12:32:01
Message-ID: 10219.1471955521@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Not only that, but from your description (I haven't read the patch,
> sorry), you'd be scanning the whole index multiple times (one per
> worker).

What about pointing each worker at a separate index? Obviously the
degree of concurrency during index cleanup is then limited by the
number of indexes, but that doesn't seem like a fatal problem.

regards, tom lane

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