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

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
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Msg-id 20151130180521.GB4682@awork2.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
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On 2015-11-30 12:58:43 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I would not bother mentioning this detail in the pg_upgrade manual page:
> 
> +   Since the format of visibility map has been changed in version 9.6,
> +   <application>pg_upgrade</> creates and rewrite new <literal>'_vm'</literal>
> +   file even if upgrading from 9.5 or before to 9.6 or later with link mode (-k).

Might be worthwhile to keep as that influences the runtime for link mode
when migrating <9.6 -> 9.6.



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