I wrote this patch last year in response to a customer issue and I
thought I had submitted it here, but evidently I didn't. So here it is.
The short story is: in commit 5364b357fb11 we increased the size of
pg_commit (née pg_clog) but we didn't increase the size of pg_commit_ts
to match. When commit_ts is in use, this can lead to significant buffer
thrashing and thus poor performance.
Since commit_ts entries are larger than pg_commit, my proposed patch uses
twice as many buffers.
Suffice it to say once we did this the customer problem went away.
(Andrey Borodin already has a patch to change the behavior for
multixact, which is something we should perhaps also do. I now notice
that they're also reporting a bug in that thread ... sigh)
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