Robert Haas <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>> GetSnapshotData doesn't take an exclusive lock. Neither does start or
>> end of a read-only transaction. AFAIK there is no reason, and certainly
>> no shred of experimental evidence, to think that ProcArrayLock
>> contention is the bottleneck for read-only scenarios.
> I think Simon's point was that it is O(n) rather than O(1), not that
> it took an exclusive lock.
I think my point was that there's no evidence that GetSnapshotData
is where the scalability issue is. Without some evidence there's no
point in kluging it up.
regards, tom lane
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