Re: Free-space-map management thoughts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Free-space-map management thoughts
Date
Msg-id 6989.1046299238@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Free-space-map management thoughts  ("Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>)
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"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the FSM is only populated by vacuum, so there
> is no FSM information for any given table / database until it's vacuumed, in
> a long running production enviornment this may not be that important, but it
> could result in a large increase in file size any time the database is
> restarted.

Right.  The original assumption was that people don't restart production
servers, so startup-transient behavior isn't very important.  But that's
obviously not a great assumption.  It seemed expedient at the time
(partly because I wasn't sure FSM would fly at all) --- but now it's
time to go back and fill in the holes.
        regards, tom lane


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