On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Yeb Havinga <yebhavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to dump syscache statistics like there is for > MemoryContext..Stats (something - gdb helped me there)?
I don't know of one. > Besides that I have to admit having problems understanding why the 5MB cache > for pg_seclabel is a problem; it's memory consumption is lineair only to the > size of the underlying database. (in contrast with the other cache storing > access vectors which would have O(n*m) space complexity if it wouldn't > reclaim space). So it is proportional to the number of objects in a database > and in size it seems to be in the same order as pg_proc, pg_class and > pg_attribute. Fair enough. I'm not convinced that the sheer quantity of memory use is a problem, although I would like to see a few more test results before we decide that definitively. I *am* unwilling to pay the startup overhead of initializing an extra 2048 syscache that only sepgsql users will actually need. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers