Re: Fresh initdb contains a few deleted B-Tree pages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Fresh initdb contains a few deleted B-Tree pages
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Msg-id CAM3SWZSMfz2N6VwZzeRacxB-Efvkh9GEGL0qbehJ9X4YmcpMLQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Fresh initdb contains a few deleted B-Tree pages  (Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu>)
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Greg Stark <stark@mit.edu> wrote:
> Why is this even a small concern? Initdb runs the bootstrap SQL which does
> various SQL operations so it's not surprising there are some updates
> creating garbage. Iirc we don't even rely on template0 being frozen any
> more.

It's not surprising that some initdb updates create garbage, but the
extent to which they do did slightly surprise me.


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Peter Geoghegan



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