On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'd like to know if this is a strategy that merits further work...If >> anybody has time/interest that is. It's getting close to the point >> where I can just post it to the commit fest for review. In >> particular, I'm concerned if Tom's earlier objections can be >> satisfied. If not, it's back to the drawing board... > > I'm interested in what you're doing here. > > From here, there's quite a lot of tuning possibilities. It would be > very useful to be able to define some metrics we are interested in > reducing and working out how to measure them. > > That way we can compare all the different variants of this to see > which way of doing things works best.
thanks for that! I settled on this approach because the downside cases should hopefully be pretty limited. The upside is a matter of debate although fairly trivial to demonstrate synthetically. I'm looking for some way of benchmarking the benefits in non-simulated fashion. We desperately need something like a performance farm (as many many others have mentioned). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
