Re: Prototype: In-place upgrade v02 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gregory Stark
Subject Re: Prototype: In-place upgrade v02
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Msg-id 87y723yhmm.fsf@oxford.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Prototype: In-place upgrade v02  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Prototype: In-place upgrade v02  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I didn't see anything that looked like an immediate change in user table
>> contents, unless they used the "name" type; but what of relation forks?
>
> Relation forks didn't change anything inside relation files, so no scanning of
> relations is required because of that. Neither will the FSM rewrite. Not sure
> about DSM yet.

And just to confirm -- they don't change the name of the files the postmaster
expects to find in its data directory, right?

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