Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
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Msg-id 20150423155337.GE31856@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>)
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 06:52:20PM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> >Agreed.  Are you saying we can't find a way to fit an 8-byte value into
> >the existing page in a backward-compatible way?
> 
> I'm sure we can find a way. We've discussed ways to handle page
> format updates in pg_upgrade before, and I don't want to get into
> that discussion here, but it's not trivial.

OK, good to know, thanks.

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