Re: Block level parallel vacuum WIP

From: Alexander Korotkov <a(dot)korotkov(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Block level parallel vacuum WIP
Date: 2016-08-23 12:40:11
Message-ID: CAPpHfdtwNwbRccuP_hzeKrcHBg_sKkRPCzkq0pgFBi_WyBJ3WA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Not only that, but from your description (I haven't read the patch,
> > sorry), you'd be scanning the whole index multiple times (one per
> > worker).
>
> What about pointing each worker at a separate index? Obviously the
> degree of concurrency during index cleanup is then limited by the
> number of indexes, but that doesn't seem like a fatal problem.
>

+1
We could eventually need some effective way of parallelizing vacuum of
single index.
But pointing each worker at separate index seems to be fair enough for
majority of cases.

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company

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