Re: remove flatfiles.c - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: remove flatfiles.c
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Msg-id 15083.1251917680@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: remove flatfiles.c  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> So I have a script that goes and finds bloated tables and runs VACUUM
> FULL on them in the middle of the night if the bloat passes a certain
> threshold.  The tables are small enough and the number of users is low
> enough that this doesn't cause any problems for me.  I'm OK if the
> name of the command changes, but I'd like there to be a command that I
> can pass a table name to and get my table debloated without having to
> make any follow-on decisions (such as picking an index to cluster by).

I think we *should* have a command that works like CLUSTER except it just
seqscans the source table without depending on any particular index.
Whether it's called VACUUM FULL or something else is a detail.
        regards, tom lane


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