Re: BufferAccessStrategy for bulk insert - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: BufferAccessStrategy for bulk insert
Date
Msg-id 603c8f070811041309j5259f228y1793cb201ced28ee@mail.gmail.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: BufferAccessStrategy for bulk insert  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: BufferAccessStrategy for bulk insert  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> 2. The logic changes in RelationGetBufferForTuple seem bizarre and
> overcomplicated.  ISTM that the buffer saved by the bistate ought to
> be about equivalent to relation->rd_targblock, ie, it's your first
> trial location and also a place to save the located buffer on the way
> out.  I'd suggest tossing that part of the patch and starting over.

Hmm, would that be safe in the presence of concurrent or recursive
bulk inserts into the same relation?

...Robert


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Patch for ALTER DATABASE WITH TABLESPACE
Next
From: Kenneth Marshall
Date:
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] updated hash functions for postgresql v1