Re: [HACKERS] unusual performance for vac following 8.2 upgrade

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kim <kim(at)myemma(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] unusual performance for vac following 8.2 upgrade
Date: 2007-01-11 19:49:28
Message-ID: 20070111194928.GC10464@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:

> What I think we need to do about this is
>
> (1) fix pgstat_vacuum_tabstats to have non-O(N^2) behavior; I'm thinking
> of using a hash table for the OIDs instead of a linear list. Should be
> a pretty small change; I'll work on it today.
>
> (2) Reconsider whether last-vacuum-time should be sent to the collector
> unconditionally.

(2) seems a perfectly reasonably answer, but ISTM (1) would be good to
have anyway (at least in HEAD).

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

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