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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: remove flatfiles.c
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Msg-id 28853.1251924179@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: remove flatfiles.c  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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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() ?
        regards, tom lane


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