Re: CREATE TABLE, load and freezing

From: Florian Pflug <fgp(dot)phlo(dot)org(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CREATE TABLE, load and freezing
Date: 2008-02-28 13:42:49
Message-ID: 47C6BA59.2030505@gmail.com
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ITAGAKI Takahiro wrote:
>> Without this, very large read-only tables would require one round of
>> complete freezing if there are lot of transactional activities in the other parts
>> of the database. And when that happens, it would generate lots of unnecessary
>> IOs on these large tables.
>
> To make things worse, the freezing day comes at once because the first restore
> is done in a single or near transactions; The wraparound timings of many
> tables are aligned at the same time. Freezing copy will be the solution.

Hm.. Couldn't we eliminate that particular concern easily by adding some
randomness to the freeze_age?

regards, Florian Pflug

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