Re: Relation extension scalability

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Relation extension scalability
Date: 2016-02-02 17:06:50
Message-ID: 20160202170650.GA135006@alvherre.pgsql
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Andres Freund wrote:

> Could you also measure how this behaves for [...]

While we're proposing benchmark cases -- I remember this being an issue
with toast tables getting very large values of xml which causes multiple
toast pages to be extended for each new value inserted. If there are
multiple processes inserting these all the time, things get clogged.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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