Re: pg_upgrade project status - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Heikki Linnakangas
Subject Re: pg_upgrade project status
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Msg-id 497F625C.7010608@enterprisedb.com
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In response to Re: pg_upgrade project status  (Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM>)
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Set general value for heap or btree is possible but  not optimal. For
> example If you have 5TB table and page layout changes do not affected
> this table but some small table needs perform a cleanup then 5TB will be
> processed in general approach, but in optimal variant it will be mark as
> prepared on upgrade automatically. 

Only the space reservation of *new* inserts/updates need to be 
integrated in the backend. In addition to that, we'll need a pre-upgrade 
script that decides which tables need processing, and process them. This 
is no different whether we accept some generic space reservation patch 
now, or backpatch a more precise one later.

--   Heikki Linnakangas  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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