On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Peter Geoghegan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why is that good?

We did discuss this before.  I've recapped some of what I believe to
be the most salient points below.

> I think that people were all too quick to dismiss the idea of a wall
> time interval playing some role here (at least as a defense against
> correlated references, as a correlated reference period). I suppose
> that that's because it doesn't fit with an intuition that says that
> that kind of interval ought to be derived algebraically - magic delay
> settings are considered suspect.

Yep, Tom gave that reason here:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

But there was also this point from Andres - gettimeofday is not free:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/[email protected]

And this point from me - this can degrade to random eviction under
high pressure:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ca+tgmoayuxr55zueapp6d2xbyicjwacc9myyn5at4tindsj...@mail.gmail.com

You'll notice that my proposal avoids all three of those objections.

-- 
Robert Haas
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