Re: Accessing schema data in information schema

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:10:54AM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> ??hel kenal p??eval, K, 2006-03-22 kell 16:11, kirjutas Tom Lane:
> > Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > > How does one get at the missing fields. The only way I know is
> > > selecting from the sequence, but how does one work this into this
> > > query? Somehow it seems that these things should be stored in a real
> > > system catalog.
> >
> > Yeah. I've occasionally toyed with the idea that sequences should be
> > rows in a single catalog instead of independent tables as they are now.
> > This would make for a much smaller disk footprint (with consequent I/O
> > savings) and would solve problems like the one you have.
>
> Would it not make page locking problems much worse with all get_next()'s
> competeing to update the same page?

What about bumping up the default cache setting a bit? Even going to a
fairly conservative value, like 10 or 25 would probably make a huge
difference.
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