Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Why do we have it at all?  Seems like it would be at least as good to
>> make the T1-or-T2 decision in StrategyGetBuffer, rather than earlier.

> If it'd be possible. The problem is that it can get called multiple 
> times during one logical buffer lookup/fault cycle. Because of the 
> possible IO, which is done in the caller of the strategy, this would 
> screw up the decision process about the queue sizes.

How so?  It seems like postponing the decision about which queue to take
from couldn't make the behavior worse; if anything it would help to
track T1target more closely.

                        regards, tom lane

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