Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?
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In response to Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
> I think that would help, but it still leaves user backends trying to advance
> the clock, which is quite painful. Has anyone tested running the clock in
> the background? We need a wiki page with all the ideas that have been tested
> around buffer management...

Amit's bgreclaimer patch did that, but we weren't able to demonstrate
a clear benefit.  I haven't given up on the idea yet, but we've got to
be able to prove that it's a good idea in practice as well as in
theory.

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Robert Haas
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