On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 18:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [I'm assuming that there are no system-wide locks held across I/Os, that > > bit seems a bit unclear from the description] > > That's always been true and still is, so I didn't dwell on it. Only a > per-buffer lock is held while doing either input or output.
[Me too, thats why its in brackets at the bottom.] ...but do you agree with my comments on the lack of scalability in cache miss situations? Best Regards, Simon Riggs ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org