Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
Date
Msg-id 16593.990646270@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem  (Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>)
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Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
>> I guess that is the question.  Are we heading for an overwriting storage
>> manager?

> I've never heard that it was given up. So there seems to be
> at least a possibility to introduce it in the future.

Unless we want to abandon MVCC (which I don't), I think an overwriting
smgr is impractical.  We need a more complex space-reuse scheme than
that.
        regards, tom lane


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