Hi Heikki, On 5/17/07 10:28 AM, "Heikki Linnakangas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is also visible on larger scans that don't fit in cache with bigger I/O > hardware, and this patch would increase the max. I/O throughput that we > can handle on such hardware. I don't have such hardware available, I > hope someone else will try that. Yes, this is absolutely the case, in addition to the benefits of not polluting the bufcache with seq scans (as discussed in detail previously). We've adopted this (see CK's patch) with excellent benefits. We can try your version on a machine with fast I/O and get back to you with a comparison of this and CK's version. - Luke ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings