On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Jeff Davis<pgsql@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Or, perhaps when the bgwriter is flushing dirty buffers, it can look for > opportunities to set hint bits or freeze tuples. One of the tricky things here is that the time you are mostly likely to want to do this is when you are loading a lot of data. But in that case shared buffers are likely to be written back to disk before transaction commit, so it'll be too early to do anything. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance