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buffers, rather than blowing out the whole shared-buffer arena. Aside from avoiding cache spoliation, this fixes the problem that VACUUM formerly tended to cause a WAL flush for every page it modified, because we had it hacked to use only a single buffer. Those flushes will now occur only once per ring-ful. The exact ring size, and the threshold for seqscans to switch into the ring usage pattern, remain under debate; but the infrastructure seems done. The key bit of infrastructure is a new optional BufferAccessStrategy object that can be passed to ReadBuffer operations; this replaces the former StrategyHintVacuum API. This patch also changes the buffer usage-count methodology a bit: we now advance usage_count when first pinning a buffer, rather than when last unpinning it. To preserve the behavior that a buffer's lifetime starts to decrease when it's released, the clock sweep code is modified to not decrement usage_count of pinned buffers. Work not done in this commit: teach GiST and GIN indexes to use the vacuum BufferAccessStrategy for vacuum-driven fetches. Original patch by Simon, reworked by Heikki and again by Tom. |
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PostgreSQL Database Management System ===================================== This directory contains the source code distribution of the PostgreSQL database management system. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions. This distribution also contains C language bindings. PostgreSQL has many language interfaces including some of the more common listed below: C++ - http://thaiopensource.org/development/libpqxx/ JDBC - http://jdbc.postgresql.org ODBC - http://odbc.postgresql.org Perl - http://search.cpan.org/~dbdpg/ PHP - http://www.php.net Python - http://www.initd.org/ Ruby - http://ruby.scripting.ca/postgres/ Other language binding are available from a variety of contributing parties. PostgreSQL also has a great number of procedural languages available, a short but not complete list is below: PL/pgSQL - included in PostgreSQL source distribution PL/Perl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution PL/PHP - http://projects.commandprompt.com/projects/public/plphp PL/Python - included in PostgreSQL source distribution PL/Java - http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pljava/projdisplay.php PL/Tcl - included in PostgreSQL source distribution See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install PostgreSQL. That file also lists supported operating systems and hardware platforms and contains information regarding any other software packages that are required to build or run the PostgreSQL system. Changes between all PostgreSQL releases are recorded in the file HISTORY. Copyright and license information can be found in the file COPYRIGHT. A comprehensive documentation set is included in this distribution; it can be read as described in the installation instructions. The latest version of this software may be obtained at http://www.postgresql.org/download/. For more information look at our web site located at http://www.postgresql.org/.