Re: COPY FREEZE and setting PD_ALL_VISIBLE/visibility map bits - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> I think the right approach would be to do all of this in heap_insert and
> heap_multi_insert. Whenever starting to work on a page, if INSERT_FROZEN
> is specified, remember whether it is either currently empty, or is
> already marked as all-visible. If previously empty, mark it as all
> visible at the end. If already all visible, there's no need to change
> that. If not yet all-visible, no need to do anything, since it can't
> have been inserted with COPY FREEZE.  Do you see any problem doing it
> that way?

Do we want to add overhead to these hot-spot routines for this purpose?

            regards, tom lane