Longer startup delay (was Re: Single Index Tuple Chain (SITC) method)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com>
Subject: Longer startup delay (was Re: Single Index Tuple Chain (SITC) method)
Date: 2006-06-29 17:08:33
Message-ID: 20060629170833.GA7756@surnet.cl
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Another issue is that this would replace a simple hint-bit setting with
> an index change that requires a WAL entry. There'll be more WAL traffic
> altogether from backends retail-deleting index tuples than there would
> be from VACUUM cleaning the whole page at once

Speaking of which, I think I've noticed a longer delay in server start
after initdb. I haven't measured nor profiled it, but I think it may be
because of the heap_inplace_update xlogging that we weren't doing
previously.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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