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Old 04-12-2008, 07:26 AM
Tom Lane
 
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Default Re: VACUUM and spoiling the buffer manager cache

"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> VACUUM's current behaviour is to take blocks it has touched and place
> them on the head of the freelist, allowing them to be reused.


No, it puts them at the tail of the freelist. So I am unconvinced by
the rest of your argument.

regards, tom lane

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