Re: posix advises ...

From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)oryx(dot)com>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: posix advises ...
Date: 2008-07-12 11:34:32
Message-ID: 20080712113432.GA26415@toroid.org
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers pgsql-patches

At 2008-07-12 00:52:42 +0100, stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com wrote:
>
> There was some discussion about this change and in fact if you
> look at CVS HEAD you'll find it already applied.

Not as far as I can see.

> Incrementing the most significant index keys would maximize the
> distance we're jumpin around in the index tree.

I see. Thanks.

> The later versions of mine had a GUC named effective_spindle_count
> which I think is nicely abstracted away from the implementation
> details.

Yes, that does sound much better. (The patch I read had a
preread_pages_bitmapscan variable instead.)

-- ams

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Martijn van Oosterhout 2008-07-12 13:08:43 Re: [WIP] collation support revisited (phase 1)
Previous Message Abhijit Menon-Sen 2008-07-12 11:30:41 Re: Extending grant insert on tables to sequences

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2008-07-12 15:26:10 Re: posix advises ...
Previous Message Abhijit Menon-Sen 2008-07-12 11:30:41 Re: Extending grant insert on tables to sequences