Re: Extension Enhancement: Buffer Invalidation in pg_buffercache - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 7:17 AM Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 6:47 AM Maksim Milyutin <milyutinma@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Should not we call at the end the StrategyFreeBuffer() function to add target buffer to freelist and not miss it
afterinvalidation? 
>
> > Please take a look at this issue, current implementation of EvictUnpinnedBuffer() IMO is erroneous - evicted
buffersare lost permanently and will not be reused again 

I don't think that's true: it is not lost permanently, it'll be found
by the regular clock hand.  Perhaps it should be put on the freelist
so it can be found again quickly, but I'm not sure that's a bug, is
it?  If it were true, even basic testing eg select
count(pg_buffercache_evict(bufferid)) from pg_buffercache would leave
the system non-functional, but it doesn't, the usual CLOCK algorithm
just does its thing.