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Re: Notification when freespaces empty


  • From: ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
  • To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Notification when freespaces empty
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:23:26 +0900
  • Message-id: <20050524165249.3AB4.ITAGAKI.TAKAHIRO@lab.ntt.co.jp> <text/plain>

Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:

> > Furthermore, this patch detaches empty fsmpages then.
> Does that do anything useful though?
> I thought we don't reallocate until VACUUM time, whereupon we identify
> any empty slots and reuse them. Who cares whether we deallocate earlier?

Yes, we cannot reuse them until next VACUUM.
But I think it is a problem that FSMs keep being scanned after they are almost empty.
In such a case, most stored pages are touched whenever new pages
are requested. I intended to cut FSMs earlier in order to omit the scans.


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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Cyber Space Laboratories




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