Re: slow dropping of tables, DropRelFileNodeBuffers, tas

From: Sergey Koposov <koposov(at)ast(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: slow dropping of tables, DropRelFileNodeBuffers, tas
Date: 2012-06-07 13:12:18
Message-ID: alpine.LRH.2.02.1206071358220.29442@calx046.ast.cam.ac.uk
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Simon Riggs wrote:

>>> Sounds less good and we'd need reasonable proof it actually did
>>> anything useful without being dangerous.
>>
>> Doing an initial unlocked test speeds things up another 2.69 fold (on
>> top of 3.55 for your patch) for me, with 1GB of shared buffers.  That
>> seems like it should be worthwhile.
>>
>> How do we go about getting reasonable proof that it is safe?
>
> That's enough for me.

So is it planned to apply that patch for 9.2 ?

Thanks,
S

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