Re: On the usefulness of hint bits - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Leonardo Francalanci
Subject Re: On the usefulness of hint bits
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In response to Re: On the usefulness of hint bits  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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> I wonder if we could improve  this with some sort of process-local
> cache - not to get rid of hint bits,  just to reduce pg_clog
> contention.  We might easily end up testing the  same XID many times
> during the same table scan.

I guess that's my scenario... not that many transactions, so even
"copying" the whole pg_clog table in the per-process memory would
be doable...





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