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

From Greg Stark
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?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
Responses Re: Clock sweep not caching enough B-Tree leaf pages?  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com> wrote:
> Although I will add that not caching highly useful inner pages for the
> medium term, because that index isn't being used at all for 5 minutes
> probably is very bad. Using the 4,828 buffers that it would take to
> store all the inner pages (as in my large primary index example) to go
> store something else is probably penny wise and pound foolish.

But there could easily be 20 unused indexes for every 1 index that is
being used.



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