Re: Status of 8.3 patches - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Status of 8.3 patches
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Msg-id 46C9F663.10001@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Status of 8.3 patches  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Status of 8.3 patches  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>   o  Automatic adjustment of bgwriter_lru_maxpages 
>>
>>      We show this as waiting for performance results.  I am thinking we
>>      should hold this for 8.4.
> 
> Agreed. I spent close to a week trying different benchmarks and
> configurations and simple test cases on a test server and my laptop, and
> couldn't demonstrate bgwriter making a positive impact in any
> configuration I tried. The theory behind the patch is sound, but it
> looks like a lot more testing and analysis is needed.

Wouldn't real world testing be needed to actually gain insight to this
patch?

Joshua D. Drake

> 
>>   o  Error correction for n_dead_tuples
>>
>>      This shows as waiting on another patch.  Again, I am thinking to
>>      keep it for 8.4.
> 
> It was waiting on the "vacuum oldestxmin" patch, which didn't make it to
> 8.3. I don't care for the patch myself, but it was submitted well before
> feature freeze and deserves a review. It looks good to me at first glance.
> 


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