Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm really curious, BTW, about how all of Jan's changes to buffer > usage in 7.5 affect this issue. Has anyone tested it on a recent > snapshot?
Won't help. (1) Theoretical argument: the problem case is select-only and touches few enough buffers that it need never visit the kernel. The buffer management algorithm is thus irrelevant since there are never any decisions for it to make. If anything CVS tip will have a worse problem because its more complicated management algorithm needs to spend longer holding the BufMgrLock. (2) Experimental argument: I believe that I did check the self-contained test case we eventually developed against CVS tip on one of Red Hat's SMP machines, and indeed it was unhappy. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])