Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update Optimization

From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: "Mark Kirkwood" <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Cc: <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Introducing an advanced Frequent Update Optimization
Date: 2006-11-09 18:05:22
Message-ID: 1163095523.3634.498.camel@silverbirch.site
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On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 15:00 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > EnterpriseDB has been running a research project to improve the
> > performance of heavily updated tables. We have a number of approaches
> > prototyped and we'd like to discuss the best of these now on -hackers
> > for community input and patch submission to PostgreSQL core.
> >
>
> Excellent! It would certainly be good for use cases like:
>
> - session data from web (or similar) applications
> - real time summary tables maintained by triggers
>
> to "just work", as (certainly in the case of the first one) quite a few
> folks have been bitten by exactly the issue you describe.

...and of course it would be good if LISTEN/NOTIFY were able to use this
concept also, to help Slony along also.

--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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