On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Craig Ringer <cr...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> On 20 December 2016 at 21:59, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> We could implement this by having >>> some process, like the background writer, >>> SendProcSignal(PROCSIG_HOUSEKEEPING) to every process in the system >>> every 10 minutes or so. > >> ... on a rolling basis. > > I don't understand why we'd make that a system-wide behavior at all, > rather than expecting each process to manage its own cache.
Individual backends don't have a really great way to do time-based stuff, do they? I mean, yes, there is enable_timeout() and friends, but I think that requires quite a bit of bookkeeping. -- 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
