Re: GiST indexes and concurrency (tsearch2)

From: "Marinos J(dot) Yannikos" <mjy(at)geizhals(dot)at>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: GiST indexes and concurrency (tsearch2)
Date: 2005-02-09 19:25:36
Message-ID: 420A63B0.5020802@geizhals.at
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Tom Lane wrote:
> You might try the attached patch (which I just applied to HEAD).
> It cuts down the number of acquisitions of the BufMgrLock by merging
> adjacent bufmgr calls during a GIST index search. [...]

Thanks - I applied it successfully against 8.0.0, but it didn't seem to
have a noticeable effect. I'm still seeing more or less exactly 25% CPU
usage by postgres processes and identical query times (measured with the
Perl script I posted earlier).

Regards,
Marinos
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