Re: [PERFORM] BUG #4919: CREATE USER command slows down system performance

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, toruvinn <toruvinn(at)lain(dot)pl>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] BUG #4919: CREATE USER command slows down system performance
Date: 2009-08-08 19:20:39
Message-ID: 20090808192039.GB9155@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:

> In some sense this is a bootstrap problem: what does it take to get to
> the point of being able to read pg_database and its indexes? That is
> necessarily not dependent on the particular database we want to join.
> Maybe we could solve it by having the relcache write a "global" cache
> file containing only entries for the global tables, and load that before
> we have identified the database we want to join (after which, we'll load
> another cache file for the local entries).

This sounds good, because autovacuum could probably use this too.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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