On January 22, 2016 3:29:44 AM GMT+01:00, Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >On 22 January 2016 at 01:12, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> While in theory correct, I think $subject is basically meaningless >> because other backends may have added thousands of new segments. Yes, >it >> wasn't the checkpointer, but that's not particularly relevant >> imo. Additionally, afaics, it will only ever be 0 or 1. >> > >Even better, we could make it add >1
That'd indeed be good, but I don't think it really will address my complaint: We'd still potentially create new segments outside the prealloc call. Including from within the checkpointer, when flushing WAL to be able to write out a page. Andres --- Please excuse brevity and formatting - I am writing this on my mobile phone. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
