Re: [PERFORM] encouraging index-only scans

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] encouraging index-only scans
Date: 2013-09-06 11:38:56
Message-ID: 5229BED0.5070506@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 09/06/2013 09:23 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm not sure if we need to expose all these new maintenance actions as
>> SQL commands.
> I strongly think we should, if only for diagnostic purposes.
It would be much easier and more flexible to expose them
as pg_*() function calls, not proper "commands".
> Also to
> adapt to some well defined workloads that the automatic system is not
> designed to handle.
+1

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Hannu Krosing
PostgreSQL Consultant
Performance, Scalability and High Availability
2ndQuadrant Nordic OÜ

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