On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > pretty clear what is going on. See the logic in > RelationGetBufferForTuple, and note that at no time do we have any FSM > data for the bid table:
Is this because, in the absence of updates or deletes, we never vacuum it? > 4. Now, all the backends again decide to try to insert into the last > available block. So everybody jams into the partly-filled block 10, > until it gets filled. Would it be (a) feasible and (b) useful to inject some entropy into this step? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers