Re: Full page images in WAL & Cache Invalidation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Full page images in WAL & Cache Invalidation
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Msg-id 4715.1185139563@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Full page images in WAL & Cache Invalidation  ("Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>)
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"Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The real problem with the scheme you propose is that it turns a
>> cache flush on one table into a system-wide cache flush.

> Yes.. It really builds on the idea that those flushes happen not
> too frequently.

The problem is that flushes may be infrequent for any one table,
but if you use an implementation that converts every per-table
flush to a system-wide flush, it's not so infrequent anymore.
        regards, tom lane


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