Re: POC: Sharing record typmods between backends

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: POC: Sharing record typmods between backends
Date: 2017-08-13 03:32:45
Message-ID: CA+TgmobX6ziAzK=LhZmce0nBD2_XQU-hWQaGRa4fgf15Hdek=w@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> That seems to involve a lot more than this though, given that currently
> the stats collector data doesn't entirely have to be in memory. I've
> seen sites with a lot of databases with quite some per-database stats
> data. Don't think we can just require that to be in memory :(

Hmm. I'm not sure it wouldn't end up being *less* memory. Don't we
end up caching 1 copy of it per backend, at least for the database to
which that backend is connected? Accessing a shared copy would avoid
that sort of thing.

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Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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