On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote: > > Is that "modern machine" a Xeon by any chance? >
$#cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz I can find a 4way Xeon (but it is shared by many users): /h/164/zhouqq#cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep "model name" model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz $/pgsql/src/backend/storage/lmgr#./a.out Spinlock pair(2648542) duration: 161.785 ms $/pgsql/src/backend/storage/lmgr#./a.out Spinlock pair(2648542) duration: 160.661 ms $/pgsql/src/backend/storage/lmgr#./a.out Spinlock pair(2648542) duration: 155.505 ms > > it now occurs to me that you could still cherry-pick non-corrupt tuples > with TID-scan queries, so this objection shouldn't be considered fatal. > It is great that it is not that difficult to do it! What's more, the parallel scan will be easier to implement based on page level scan operators. Regards, Qingqing ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster