Re: Resumable vacuum proposal and design overview

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Galy Lee <lee(dot)galy(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Resumable vacuum proposal and design overview
Date: 2007-03-01 15:10:32
Message-ID: 20070301151031.GI15006@nasby.net
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On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:14:24PM +0000, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> cache instead. In the index scan phase, it's randomly accessed, but if
> the table is clustered, it's in fact not completely random access. In
> the 2nd vacuum pass, the array is scanned sequentially again. I'm not

Only if there's only one index on the table... otherwise I'd argue that
you're much less likely to be searching the TID list incrementally.
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