Re: adding new pages bulky way

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:59:04PM +0300, Victor Y. Yegorov wrote:

> The question is: allocating pages this way is really ugly, I understand. Is
> there some API that would allow allocating N pages in the bulk way?
> Maybe this is a know problem, that has been already solved before?
> Any other ideas?

I don't understand your question. What's the problem with holding the
extend lock for the index relation while you extend it? Certainly you
want only a single process creating a new extent in the index, right?

I guess the question is when are the extents created, and what
concurrency do you expect from that operation.

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