On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 17:42:44 -0500, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Instead of an actively maintained freelist on disk as per Alvaro Herrera's >patch, I plan to use the FSM to remember where recyclable pages are, much >as we do for tables.
Given that we have a mostly empty metapage per index, and the metapage is in memory most of the time, using it for the freelist looks almost like a free lunch. I've picked up Alvaro's patch and played around a bit. Reviewing my changes it turns out that most of them deal with the freelist. If you are interested I can send my version of the patch to you or to the list. Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])