RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
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Msg-id 3705826352029646A3E91C53F7189E32016652@sectorbase2.sectorbase.com
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In response to Plans for solving the VACUUM problem  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
> I think so too. I've never said that an overwriting smgr
> is easy and I don't love it particularily.
> 
> What I'm objecting is to avoid UNDO without giving up
> an overwriting smgr. We shouldn't be noncommittal now. 

Why not? We could decide to do overwriting smgr later
and implement UNDO then. For the moment we could just
change checkpointer to use checkpoint.redo instead of
checkpoint.undo when defining what log files should be
deleted - it's a few minutes deal, and so is changing it
back.

Vadim


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