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<   free-behind behavior, but it is unclear how the setting affects other
<   backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported
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PostgreSQL TODO List
====================
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us)
Last updated: Fri Dec 7 12:52:05 EST 2007
Last updated: Wed Dec 12 01:59:39 EST 2007
The most recent version of this document can be viewed at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html.
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Cache Usage
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* Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans to avoid
kernel cache spoiling
Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and
free-behind behavior, but it is unclear how the setting affects other
backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported
on all operating systems.
* Speed up COUNT(*)
We could use a fixed row count and a +/- count to follow MVCC
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doc/src/FAQ/TODO.html
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#FF0000" vlink="#A00000" alink="#0000FF">
<h1><a name="section_1">PostgreSQL TODO List</a></h1>
<p>Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (<a href="mailto:bruce@momjian.us">bruce@momjian.us</a>)<br/>
Last updated: Fri Dec 7 12:52:05 EST 2007
Last updated: Wed Dec 12 01:59:39 EST 2007
</p>
<p>The most recent version of this document can be viewed at<br/>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.TODO.html</a>.
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<h1><a name="section_12">Cache Usage</a></h1>
<ul>
<li>Allow free-behind capability for large sequential scans to avoid
kernel cache spoiling
<p> Posix_fadvise() can control both sequential/random file caching and
free-behind behavior, but it is unclear how the setting affects other
backends that also have the file open, and the feature is not supported
on all operating systems.
</p>
</li><li>Speed up COUNT(*)
<li>Speed up COUNT(*)
<p> We could use a fixed row count and a +/- count to follow MVCC
visibility rules, or a single cached value could be used and
invalidated if anyone modifies the table. Another idea is to
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