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Old 04-18-2008, 09:40 AM
Heikki Linnakangas
 
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Default Re: scan_recycle_buffers

Simon Riggs wrote:
> Patch to implement buffer cache recycling for scans, as being discussed
> on pgsql-hackers.


A few questions come to mind:

How does it behave with Jeff's synchronized seq scans patch?

I wonder if calling RelationGetNumberOfBlocks on every seq scan becomes
a performance issue for tiny tables with for example just 1 page. It
performs an lseek, which isn't free.

What happens if multiple backends choose overlapping sets of buffers to
recycle?

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