Re: shared_buffers advice

Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane escribió:
> >> That's not going to do anything towards reducing the actual I/O volume.
> >> Although I suppose it might be useful if it just cuts the number of
> >> seeks.
>
> > Oh, they had no problems with I/O volume.  It was relation extension
> > lock that was heavily contended for them.
>
> Really?  I guess that serialized all the I/O ... I'll bet if we got rid
> of that locking somehow, they *would* have a problem with I/O volume.

Well, that would solve the problem as far as I'm concerned and they'd
have to start talking to their storage provider ;-)

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