On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 11:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Decibel! wrote: > >> Also, Simon and Tom had an idea at PGCon: Don't set hint-bits in the > >> back-end if the page isn't already dirty. > > > Or even better: set the hint-bits, but don't dirty the page. > > Which in fact is what Simon suggested, not the other thing. Just raised this on -hackers, BTW. -- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support