Re: Moving 'hot' pages from buffer pool to heap

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Moving 'hot' pages from buffer pool to heap
Date: 2013-08-05 19:44:30
Message-ID: 3221.1375731870@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I was experimenting with the idea of moving hot buffer pages from the
> buffer pool to heap, thus allowing for normal removal of the hot
> buffer page from the buffer pool and freeing the corresponding buffer
> pool slot.

Uh ... what? Why in the world would you want to force a hot page out of
shared buffers? I fail to conceive of any scenario where that'd be a
good idea.

regards, tom lane

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