Re: Vacuum: allow usage of more than 1GB of work mem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Vacuum: allow usage of more than 1GB of work mem
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Msg-id CAM3SWZRG7KP4dNCKpNonrVhkX0jdmbJ6v2DP2UD379b3edNmmg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Vacuum: allow usage of more than 1GB of work mem  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's probably wrong to worry that an array-of-arrays is going
> to be meaningfully slower than a single array here.  It's basically
> costing you some small number of additional memory references per
> tuple, which I suspect isn't all that relevant for a bulk operation
> that does I/O, writes WAL, locks buffers, etc.

This analysis makes perfect sense to me.


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Peter Geoghegan



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