On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:27 +0530, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> The version 5.0 of HOT WIP patch is posted on pgsql-patches. This
> fixes the VACUUM FULL issue with HOT. In all the earlier versions,
> I'd disabled VACUUM FULL.
>
> When we move the HOT-chain, we move the chains but don't carry
> the HOT_UPDATED or HEAP_ONLY flags and insert as many index
> entries as there are tuples in the chain. IOW the HOT-update
> is actually turned into a COLD chain.
Seems fine to me.
> Apart from this, I'd to make some changes to the VACUUM FULL
> code so that the number of indexed tuples is counted
> correctly. With HOT, whenever a HEAP_ONLY tuple is moved, an
> additional index entry is generated and this needs to be
> taken into account.
It should do this, but its probably worth posting a TODO of minor items
like this, otherwise we'll lose focus on the major items.
-- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
