Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> That's irrelevant to the problem, though. Unless the ARC code uses data >> structures that are more amenable to localized locking than the old >> global buffer freelist. (Jan?)
> the strategy itself does no locking at all. Like the old LRU code it > simply assumes that the buffer manager holds the lock during calls. Okay, I suspected as much but wasn't sure. Manfred's numbers definitely say that we need to find a way to break down the BufMgrLock into multiple finer-grain locks. We already have all those per-buffer LWLocks, but I don't see how to apply those to the problem of managing the global lookup and replacement datastructures. Anyone see an attack path here? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match