Re: slow dropping of tables, DropRelFileNodeBuffers, tas - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, 31 May 2012, Simon Riggs wrote:

>
> That struck me as a safe and easy optimisation. This was a problem I'd
> been trying to optimise for 9.2, so I've written a patch that appears
> simple and clean enough to be applied directly.

Thanks! The patch indeed improved the timings, 
The dropping of 100 tables in a single commit before the patch took ~ 50 
seconds, now it takes ~ 5 sec (it would be nice to reduce it further 
though, because the dropping of 10000 tables still takes ~10 min).

Cheers,    S

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