Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2014-02-14 08:06:40 +0100, Jesper Krogh wrote:
> > The build in mechanism, that cleanup is i cost paid by the process who
> > happened to fill the pendinglist, is really hard to deal with in
> > production. More control is appreciated, perhaps even an explicit
> > flush-mechanism.. I'd like to batch up inserts during one transaction
> > only and flush on commit.
>
> That doesn't seem likely to work with a reasonable amount of effort. The
> fastupdate list is shared across all processes, so one backend will
> always pay the price for several others.
Unless some other process does it, such as autovacuum.
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