Re: RC2 and open issues

From: "Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD" <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RC2 and open issues
Date: 2004-12-21 11:18:58
Message-ID: 46C15C39FEB2C44BA555E356FBCD6FA40184D27F@m0114.s-mxs.net
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> If we don't start where we left off, I am thinking if you do a lot of
> writes then do nothing, the next checkpoint would be huge because a lot
> of the LRU will be dirty because the bgwriter never got to it.

I think the problem is, that we don't see wether a "read hot"
page is also "write hot". We would want to write dirty "read hot" pages,
but not "write hot" pages. It does not make sense to write a "write hot"
page since it will be dirty again when the checkpoint comes.

Andreas

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