Re: FSM search modes - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: FSM search modes
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Msg-id 6080.1254437385@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: FSM search modes  ("Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>)
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"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Fuzzy thinking there -- if it's the last quarter of the *free* pages,
> the suggested probabilities should be fine.  (Somehow I got to
> thinking, for a moment, that it would be the last quarter of the
> relation's overall pages....)

It's going to be the latter --- we do not know, and are *not* going to
invest the cycles to find out, how many pages have a useful amount of
free space.  Even finding out the relation physical length might be
more cycles than we want to spend here ...
        regards, tom lane


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