Re: Lockless pg_buffercache

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Markus Bertheau" <mbertheau(dot)pg(at)googlemail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Lockless pg_buffercache
Date: 2008-02-10 17:24:33
Message-ID: 15812.1202664273@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> So, what's the real burden like from the pg_buffercache contrib module?

I wonder whether pg_buffercache should be changed to work like the
statistics views do, ie, you take a snapshot during the first call
within a transaction. This would allow correlation of the results
across multiple queries.

regards, tom lane

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