Re: limiting hint bit I/O

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: limiting hint bit I/O
Date: 2011-01-14 18:42:09
Message-ID: 9040.1295030529@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> writes:
> Anyway, there are so many ideas in this area, it's hard to keep them
> all straight. Personally, if I was going to start with something,
> it would probably be to better establish what the impact is on
> various workloads of *eliminating* hint bits.

> I know some people find them useful for forensics to a degree that
> they would prefer not to see this,

Um, yeah, I think you're having a problem keeping all the ideas straight
;-). The argument about forensics has to do with how soon we're willing
to freeze tuples, ie replace the XID with a constant. Not about hint
bits.

regards, tom lane

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