Re: Some thoughts about i/o priorities and throttling vacuum

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 14:56, Mike Mascari wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > Ooh strained metaphors. This game is always fun.
> > 
> > So I think of it the other way around. A busy database is like downtown
> > traffic with everyone going every which way for short trips. Running vacuum is
> > like having a few trucks driving through your city streets for through
> > traffic. 
> > 
> > Having a parameter to slow down the through traffic is like, uh, having
> > express lanes for local traffic. er, yeah, that's the ticket. Except who ever
> > heard of having express lanes for local traffic. Hm.
> 
> All I know is that Jan Wieck would have each car filled to the brim
> with spikes....

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