Kenneth Marshall wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:42:09PM +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
Hold that thought! Read Heikki's Piggyback VACUUM idea on new thread...
There may be other functions that could leverage a similar sort of
infrastructure. For example, a long DB mining query could be registered
with the system. Then as the pieces of the table/database are brought in
to shared memory during the normal daily DB activity they can be acquired
without forcing the DB to run a very I/O expensive query when waiting a
bit for the results would be acceptable. As long as we are thinking
piggyback.
Yeah, I had the same idea when we discussed synchronizing sequential
scans. The biggest difference is that with queries, there's often a user
waiting for the query to finish, but with vacuum we don't care so much
how long it takes.
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Heikki Linnakangas
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