Re: How much do the hint bits help?

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: How much do the hint bits help?
Date: 2010-12-22 21:33:12
Message-ID: 4D126E98.4050105@agliodbs.com
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> Certainly having a choice about configuring them would be a good
> addition in itself, e.g for data warehousing use the hint bits can be a
> considerable impediment so the *ability* to not have them would be a
> huge advantage.

Would need to be a restart option, no?

Regarding the contention which Tom expects: the extra load on the CLOG
would be 100% reads, no? If it's *all* reads, why would we have any
more contention than we have now?

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