Re: Order of operations in lazy_vacuum_rel - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Order of operations in lazy_vacuum_rel
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Msg-id 20100208173855.GN4113@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Order of operations in lazy_vacuum_rel  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Order of operations in lazy_vacuum_rel  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I see that lazy_vacuum_rel() truncates the heap before it does vacuuming
> of the free space map.  Once upon a time this wouldn't have mattered,
> but now it means that cancel interrupts are likely to be ignored for
> the duration of FreeSpaceMapVacuum().  Is that really necessary?
> Would it be okay to swap the two steps?

How would it matter?  Interrupts are not enabled until the transaction
is committed anyway, which must happen after both things have finished ..

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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