Re: Buglist

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Buglist
Date: 2003-08-21 01:29:08
Message-ID: 20030821012908.GA4974@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 05:21:35PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:

> What about a little hint to the buffer management that if it has to
> evict another buffer to physically read this one (meaning the buffer
> pool was full already) then it will not put this buffer at the top of
> the LRU chain but rather at it's end? This way a vacuum on a large table
> will not cause a complete cache eviction.
>
> Might be a useful hint for sequential scans too.

Somebody was playing with using LRU-2 or ARC or some other algorithm for
page replacement instead of the current LRU... wouldn't it help with
this too?

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La vida es para el que se aventura"

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