Ron Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greg Smith wrote:
>> Count me on the side that agrees adjusting the vacuuming parameters is
>> the more straightforward way to cope with this problem.
> Agreed for vacuum; but it still seems interesting to me that
> across databases and workloads high priority transactions
> tended to get through faster than low priority ones. Is there
> any reason to believe that the drawbacks of priority inversion
> outweigh the benefits of setting priorities?
Well, it's unclear, and anecdotal evidence is unlikely to convince
anybody. I had put some stock in the CMU paper, but if it's based
on PG 7.3 then you've got to **seriously** question its relevance
to the current code.
regards, tom lane
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