Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option
Date
Msg-id 20121201204020.GC15334@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: ALTER TABLE ... NOREWRITE option  ("Petr Jelinek" <pjmodos@pjmodos.net>)
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On 2012-12-01 12:35:15 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > If you have a framework and you want to test for this you can just
> > compare relfilenodes before/after.
>
> You're targeting the wrong users.  This feature isn't for helping you or
> me.  It's for helping the Rails users.

I am not targeting anything. All I am saying is that if some framework
(not the framework's users!) wants to build something like that today
its not all that complicated.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

-- Andres Freund                       http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training &
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