On September 19, 2014 10:16:35 PM CEST, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>On 19 September 2014 13:04, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What I'm thinking about is that the smarts to enable pruning is all
>in
>> the executor nodes. So anything that updates the catalog without
>> going through the executor will never be subject to pruning. That
>> includes nearly all catalog-modifying code throughout the backend.
>
>Are you saying this is a problem or a benefit? (and please explain
>why).
I have no idea what Robert is thinking of, but I'd imagine its horrible for workloads with catalog bloat. Like ones
involvingtemp tables.
I generally have serious doubts about disabling it generally for read workloads. I imagine it e.g. will significantly
penalizeworkloads where its likely that a cleanup lock can't be acquired every time...
Andres
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