Re: Some ideas about Vacuum

From: "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Guillaume Smet" <guillaume(dot)smet(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Markus Schiltknecht" <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers list" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Some ideas about Vacuum
Date: 2008-01-16 19:10:40
Message-ID: 9362e74e0801161110g79215e72hf982e78e4e655991@mail.gmail.com
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> For more usefulness, we'd need to keep databases more separate from each
> other than we do now. Databases would need to have their own transaction
> counters, for example. Shared relations would obviously need major
> changes for that to work. If we ultimately could separate databases so
> that you could take a filesystem copy of a single database, and restore
> it to another cluster, then per-database WAL and PITR would work.
>
> I agree to the fact that we can't have a separate WAL per database. Looks
like it makes more sense to create a seperate database cluster, instead of
adding one more database, if we want to make better use of available horse
power and if we don't have cross database queries.

Thanks,
Gokul.

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