Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > I then got to wondering whether we should even go a step further, and > simply decree that a page with only hint bit updates is not dirty and > won't be written, period.
This sort of thing has been discussed before. It seems fairly clear to me that any of these variations represents a performance tradeoff: some cases will get better and some will get worse. I think we are not going to get far unless we can agree on a set of benchmark cases that we'll use to decide whether the tradeoff is a win or not. How can we arrive at that? regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers