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 | | From: | Dann Corbit | | Subject: | Re: ARC patent | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 19:00:47 -0800 |
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 | How about LRU + "learning" --> something like the optimizer?
It might be nice also to be able to pin things in memory.
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From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kirkwood
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 6:55 PM
To: Simon Riggs
Cc: Neil Conway; Tom Lane; Joshua D. Drake; Jeff Davis; pgsql-hackers
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ARC patent
Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 23:17 +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
> (snippage)
>>For 8.0.x, I wonder
>>if it would be better to just replace ARC with LRU.
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>> Sequential scans will still flood
>>the cache, but I don't view that as an enormous problem.
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> Agree with everything apart from the idea that seq scan flooding isn't
> an issue. I definitely think it is.
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Is it feasible to consider LRU + a free-behind or seqscan hint type of
replacement policy?
regards
Mark
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