Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Whatever happened to this? It was in the first 9.0 commitfest but was
> >>> returned with feedback but never updated:
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Though Alex did some useful tests and review, and in fact confirmed that
> >> the
> >> VACUUM time dropped from 16494 msec to 366 msec, I somehow kept waiting for
> >> Heikki's decision on the general direction of the patch and lost interest
> >> in
> >> between. If we are still interested in this, I can work out a patch and
> >> submit for next release if not this.
> >
> > OK, TODO added:
> >
> > Have single-page pruning update the visibility map
> > * https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/patch_view?id=75
> >
> > Hopefully Heikki can comment on this.
>
> I think I was worried about the possible performance impact of having to
> clear the bit in visibility map again. If you're frequently updating a
> tuple so that HOT and page pruning is helping you, setting the bit in
> visibility map seems counter-productive; it's going to be cleared soon
> again by another UPDATE. That's just a hunch, though. Maybe the overhead
> is negligible.
Should I remove the TODO item? I updated the text to:
Consider having single-page pruning update the visibility map
and added a URL to Heikki's new comment.
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