Re: Rewriting Free Space Map - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rewriting Free Space Map
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Msg-id 14761.1205773709@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rewriting Free Space Map  (Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> One advantage of using separate relfilenodes would be that if we need to
> regenerate a map we could do it in a new relfilenode and swap it in like we do
> with heap rewrites.

You could probably do that using a temporary fork number, if the
situation ever came up.
        regards, tom lane


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