Re: WIP: Avoid creation of the free space map for small tables - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Munro
Subject Re: WIP: Avoid creation of the free space map for small tables
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In response to WIP: Avoid creation of the free space map for small tables  (John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: WIP: Avoid creation of the free space map for small tables  (John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com>)
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On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 7:47 AM John Naylor <jcnaylor@gmail.com> wrote:
> A while back, Robert Haas noticed that the space taken up by very
> small tables is dominated by the FSM [1]. Tom suggested that we could
> prevent creation of the FSM until the heap has reached a certain
> threshold size [2]. Attached is a WIP patch to implement that. I've
> also attached a SQL script to demonstrate the change in behavior for
> various scenarios.

Hi John,

You'll need to tweak the test in contrib/pageinspect/sql/page.sql,
because it's currently asserting that there is an FSM on a small table
so make check-world fails.

-- 
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com


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