Tom Lane wrote: > Well, it's a TO-THINK-ABOUT anyway. I think the appropriate next step > would not be to write code, but to do a detailed investigation of what > would be gained or lost. I don't remember exactly what we do with the > flat-file contents. Maybe what we need is not to get rid of the flat files, but to speed them up. If we're worried about speed in the pg_authid flatfile, and come up with a solution to that problem, what will we do with the pg_database flatfile when it grows too large? We can't just get rid of it, because autovacuum needs to access it. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance