Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Clean up code associated with updating pg_class statistics columns
> (relpages/reltuples). To do this, create formal support in heapam.c for
> "overwrite" tuple updates (including xlog replay capability) and use that
> instead of the ad-hoc overwrites we'd been using in VACUUM and CREATE INDEX.
> Take the responsibility for updating stats during CREATE INDEX out of the
> individual index AMs, and do it where it belongs, in catalog/index.c. Aside
> from being more modular, this avoids having to update the same tuple twice in
> some paths through CREATE INDEX. It's probably not measurably faster, but
> for sure it's a lot cleaner than before.
Minor comment: since you removed the ----- lines from the index_create
header comment, I think pgindent will mess up the alignment for that
comment, which probably will not be very nice. Same in
index_update_stats. Otherwise, nice work! I will update my relminxid
patch to this and re-submit.
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