-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: >> o Automatic adjustment of bgwriter_lru_maxpages >> >> We show this as waiting for performance results. I am thinking we >> should hold this for 8.4. > > Agreed. I spent close to a week trying different benchmarks and > configurations and simple test cases on a test server and my laptop, and > couldn't demonstrate bgwriter making a positive impact in any > configuration I tried. The theory behind the patch is sound, but it > looks like a lot more testing and analysis is needed.
Wouldn't real world testing be needed to actually gain insight to this patch? Joshua D. Drake > >> o Error correction for n_dead_tuples >> >> This shows as waiting on another patch. Again, I am thinking to >> keep it for 8.4. > > It was waiting on the "vacuum oldestxmin" patch, which didn't make it to > 8.3. I don't care for the patch myself, but it was submitted well before > feature freeze and deserves a review. It looks good to me at first glance. > - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGyfZjATb/zqfZUUQRAltsAKClIbgh+r2ktW9MM8EO/rfp/TrsWACgq34w RdjYafRztMrnxztwlpRhWzQ= =Yfiq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate