Re: Hint Bits and Write I/O

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hint Bits and Write I/O
Date: 2008-05-29 22:21:19
Message-ID: 483EE689.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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>>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:26 PM, in message
<483DEA2D(dot)3010704(at)phlo(dot)org>,
"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org> wrote:

> I think we should put some randomness into the decision,
> to spread the IO caused by hit-bit updates after a batch load.

Currently we have a policy of doing a VACUUM FREEZE ANALYZE on a table
after a bulk load, or on the entire database after loading a pg_dump
of a database. We do this before putting the table or database into
production. This avoids surprising clusters of writes at
unpredictable times. Please don't defeat that. (I'm not sure whether
your current suggestion would.)

-Kevin

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