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

From: Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(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 20:10:22
Message-ID: E2F81647-D55B-421F-8B9E-D2D44C1AFF9C@gmail.com
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On 06-Aug-2013, at 1:24, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was experimenting with the idea of moving hot buffer pages from the
>> buffer pool to heap,
>
> Which heap do you mean here? Alas, half the data structures used in CS
> are called "heap". I can't think of any of them that are good
> candidates for this, though.
>

My bad.By heap, I meant the memory.The idea is to allocate a new slot in memory for holding that page,so as to free the buffer pool slot.

Regards,

Atri

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