Re: [RFC, POC] Don't require a NBuffer sized PrivateRefCount array of local buffer pins - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: [RFC, POC] Don't require a NBuffer sized PrivateRefCount array of local buffer pins
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Msg-id CA+TgmoYtXwvF93csLkqtnZTJHWEPa9Dv_W0D8kjzpNqAM9Qygg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [RFC, POC] Don't require a NBuffer sized PrivateRefCount array of local buffer pins  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: [RFC, POC] Don't require a NBuffer sized PrivateRefCount array of local buffer pins  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I've tried to reproduce problems around this (when I wrote this), but
> it's really hard to construct cases that need more than 8 pins. I've
> tested performance for those cases by simply not using the array, and
> while the performance suffers a bit, it's not that bad.

Suspended queries won't do it?

Also, it would be good to quantify "not that bad".  Actually, this
thread is completely lacking any actual benchmark results...

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