Re: Piggybacking vacuum I/O

From: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Piggybacking vacuum I/O
Date: 2007-01-26 16:47:32
Message-ID: 2e78013d0701260847q168544cbwf3c4b6f31a51f8fc@mail.gmail.com
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On 1/26/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
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> Maybe have the bgwriter update hint bits as it evicts pages out of the
> cache? It could result in pg_clog read traffic for each page that needs
> eviction; not such a hot idea.

I thought once we enhance clog so that there are no clog reads,
bgwriter would be able to update hint bits without getting into any deadlock
with pg_clog read.

May be we can have this as a seperate TODO

Thanks,
Pavan

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