Re: Vacuum thoughts

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar(at)persistent(dot)co(dot)in>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum thoughts
Date: 2003-11-01 05:16:56
Message-ID: 200311010516.hA15GuY18421@candle.pha.pa.us
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 15:31, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > Well, "partial solution" isn't quite what I would call it, and it surely
> > needs integration with sequential scans. I really do expect the whole
> > hack to fall apart if some concurrent seqscans are going on
>
> I'd rather see us implement a buffer replacement policy that considers
> both frequency + recency (unlike LRU, which considers only recency).
> Ideally, that would work "automagically". I'm hoping to get a chance to
> implement ARC[1] during the 7.5 cycle.

Someone just started working on it this week. He emailed Jan and I. He
hopes to have a patch in a few days. I will make sure he posts to
hackers/patches.

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