Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM

Tom Lane wrote:
> Attached is an extremely crude prototype patch for making VACUUM delay
> by a configurable amount between pages, in hopes of throttling its disk
> bandwidth consumption. By default, there is no delay (so no change in
> behavior). In some quick testing, setting vacuum_page_delay to 10
> (milliseconds) seemed to greatly reduce a background VACUUM's impact
> on pgbench timing on an underpowered machine. Of course, it also makes
> VACUUM a lot slower, but that's probably not a serious concern for
> background VACUUMs.

[SNIP]

> The patch is against CVS tip, but should apply cleanly to any recent
> 7.4 beta. You could likely adapt it to 7.3 without much effort.

Will we have this on 7.4 ?
I tried it and improve a lot the responsiness of my queries just putting
the delay equal to 10 ms.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola