Re: Vacuum thoughts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Vacuum thoughts
Date
Msg-id 200311010516.hA15GuY18421@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Vacuum thoughts  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 15:31, Jan Wieck wrote:
> > Well, "partial solution" isn't quite what I would call it, and it surely 
> > needs integration with sequential scans. I really do expect the whole 
> > hack to fall apart if some concurrent seqscans are going on
> 
> I'd rather see us implement a buffer replacement policy that considers
> both frequency + recency (unlike LRU, which considers only recency).
> Ideally, that would work "automagically". I'm hoping to get a chance to
> implement ARC[1] during the 7.5 cycle.

Someone just started working on it this week.  He emailed Jan and I.  He
hopes to have a patch in a few days.  I will make sure he posts to
hackers/patches.

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