Re: New vacuum option to do only freezing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: New vacuum option to do only freezing
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In response to Re: New vacuum option to do only freezing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:46 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Yeah, if we wanted to expose these complications more directly, we
> could think about adding or changing the main counters.  I was wondering
> about whether we should have it report "x bytes and y line pointers
> freed", rather than counting tuples per se.

I like that idea, but I'm pretty sure that there are very few users
that are aware of these distinctions at all. It would be a good idea
to clearly document them.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan



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