Re: eliminate xl_heap_visible to reduce WAL (and eventually set VM on-access)

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(at)vondra(dot)me>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kirill Reshke <reshkekirill(at)gmail(dot)com>, Chao Li <li(dot)evan(dot)chao(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrey Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Xuneng Zhou <xunengzhou(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
Subject: Re: eliminate xl_heap_visible to reduce WAL (and eventually set VM on-access)
Date: 2026-04-21 15:07:25
Message-ID: CAAKRu_Y9N44j7SFyEkymTjosfCGZVetraVciAOq0wSRswvxQZg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM Melanie Plageman
<melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> With shared buffers, while it is true you'd ideally leave the backend
> headroom for other read streams etc, it won't error out the way the
> temp table case does unless we've actually pinned all shared buffers.
> It will simply slow down the read ahead of the competing read streams.
>
> Attached is what I'm thinking of committing.

Okay, I committed this in da6874635db.

- Melanie

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