On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:55 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Well, most of the potential usecases for dsmhash I've heard about so > far, don't actually benefit much from incremental growth. In nearly all > the implementations I've seen incremental move ends up requiring more > total cycles than doing it at once, and for parallelism type usecases > the stall isn't really an issue. So yes, I think this is something > worth considering. If we were to actually use DHT for shared caches or > such, this'd be different, but that seems darned far off.
I think it'd be pretty interesting to look at replacing parts of the stats collector machinery with something DHT-based. -- 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
