Re: slow dropping of tables, DropRelFileNodeBuffers, tas

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sergey Koposov <koposov(at)ast(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: slow dropping of tables, DropRelFileNodeBuffers, tas
Date: 2012-06-07 13:56:52
Message-ID: 8169.1339077412@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sergey Koposov <koposov(at)ast(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Simon Riggs wrote:
>>>> Sounds less good and we'd need reasonable proof it actually did
>>>> anything useful without being dangerous.

>>> Doing an initial unlocked test speeds things up another 2.69 fold (on
>>> top of 3.55 for your patch) for me, with 1GB of shared buffers. That
>>> seems like it should be worthwhile.

>>> How do we go about getting reasonable proof that it is safe?

>> That's enough for me.

Say what? That's a performance result and proves not a damn thing about
safety.

regards, tom lane

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