Re: heap_page_prune comments - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: heap_page_prune comments
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Msg-id 7442.1320417984@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: heap_page_prune comments  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> Seems a little hackish, though: we'd be reporting an amount of
> freespace that we've deliberately set to an incorrect value.  I'm
> almost thinking we should report the freespace that's actually
> available, on the theory that Bload Is Bad (TM).

IIRC, this code is following the very longstanding precedent of
RelationGetBufferForTuple.
        regards, tom lane


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