Re: Free space management within heap page - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Free space management within heap page
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Msg-id 18259.1169563079@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Free space management within heap page  ("Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Free space management within heap page  ("Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>)
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"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> writes:
> I know it might break the ctid chain, but does that really matter ?

Yes.  You can't just decide that the tuple isn't needed anymore.
As per other followup, you could possibly shrink a known-dead tuple to
just the header.

The notion of keeping linked lists etc seems like gross overdesign to me.
Why not just compact out the free space?
        regards, tom lane


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