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

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: remove flatfiles.c
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Msg-id 20090902225436.GA5896@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: remove flatfiles.c  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane escribi�:
> >> I don't find a lot wrong with that.  The code defines its purpose as
> >> being to shorten the table file length.  Once it hits a page that
> >> can't be emptied, it cannot shorten the file any further, so why
> >> shouldn't it stop?
> 
> > All that work, and it wasn't capable of defragging the other pages?  At
> > the very least it could register them in the FSM.
> 
> You mean like vac_update_fsm() ?

Huh :-)

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