On 3/22/12 2:13 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
Greetings,

   I've recently become a bit annoyed and frustrated looking at this in
   top:

23296 postgres  20   0 3341m 304m 299m S   12  0.9   1:50.02 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24362 postgres  20   0 3353m 298m 285m D   12  0.9   1:24.99 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY
24429 postgres  20   0 3340m 251m 247m S   11  0.8   1:13.79 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24138 postgres  20   0 3341m 249m 244m S   10  0.8   1:28.09 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24153 postgres  20   0 3340m 246m 241m S   10  0.8   1:24.44 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24166 postgres  20   0 3341m 318m 313m S   10  1.0   1:40.52 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24271 postgres  20   0 3340m 288m 283m S   10  0.9   1:34.12 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24528 postgres  20   0 3341m 290m 285m S   10  0.9   1:21.23 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting
24540 postgres  20   0 3340m 241m 236m S   10  0.7   1:15.91 postgres: sfrost 
gis [local] COPY waiting

   Has anyone been working on or considering how to improve the logic
   around doing extends on relations to perhaps make larger extensions
   for larger tables?  Or make larger extensions when tables are growing
   very quickly?

   I haven't looked at the code, but I'm guessing we extend relations
   when they're full (that part makes sense..), but we extend them an
   itty-bitty bit at a time, which very quickly ends up being not fast
   enough for the processes that want to get data into the table.

   My gut feeling is that we could very easily and quickly improve this
   situation by having a way to make larger extensions, and then using
   that method when we detect that a table is growing very quickly.

I know that there's been discussion around this. Way back in the day we 
extended relations one page at a time. I don't remember if that was changed or 
not.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                   j...@nasby.net
512.569.9461 (cell)                         http://jim.nasby.net

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