| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Automatic free space map filling |
| Date: | 2006-03-03 16:56:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20060303165643.GF5865@surnet.cl |
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Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Csaba Nagy wrote:
> >
> >>Now when the queue tables get 1000 times dead space compared to their
> >>normal size, I get performance problems. So tweaking vacuum cost delay
> >>doesn't buy me anything, as not vacuum per se is the performance
> >>problem, it's long run time for big tables is.
> >>
> >So for you it would certainly help a lot to be able to vacuum the first
> >X pages of the big table, stop, release locks, create new transaction,
> >continue with the next X pages, lather, rinse, repeat.
>
> I got the impression that Csaba is looking more for "multiple
> simultaneous vacuum" more than the partial vacuum.
So he rather needs Hannu Krosing's patch for simultaneous vacuum ...
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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