Re: Autocommit, isolation level, and vacuum behavior - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jack Orenstein
Subject Re: Autocommit, isolation level, and vacuum behavior
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Msg-id 6B024CA6-8223-4971-B40E-2519C9D58AB4@hds.com
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In response to Re: Autocommit, isolation level, and vacuum behavior  (Tomasz Ostrowski <tometzky@batory.org.pl>)
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On Sep 13, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:

> On 2008-09-12 15:52, Jack Orenstein wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I misspoke. I have an index, but preferred doing a scan
>> without the index in this case.
>
> Why?
>
> The only reason I can think of is that you'd like to avoid disk
> seeking. But you get at most 1 row in 30 seconds, so disk latency
> (only several milliseconds) can be ignored.
>

Because other parts of our application consume results from the same
query at normal speed.

Jack

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