On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 2:35 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I envision this happening automatically -- you drop the partition, a
> persistent work item is registered, autovacuum takes care of it
> whenever. The user doesn't have to do anything about it.
We don't have to agree on anything now, but I think that it's possible
that the page split thing will very effective. Perhaps even so
effective that it won't make much sense to vacuum global indexes just
because there is a pending dropped partition.
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Peter Geoghegan