Re: Reducing relation locking overhead

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: Reducing relation locking overhead
Date: 2005-12-03 20:16:27
Message-ID: 20051203201627.GB31396@surnet.cl
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Simon Riggs wrote:

> Understood. At 7.3, REINDEXing is essential, since rows never got
> deleted and space was not reused. That is not the case now, hence a
> REINDEX is less often required.

But it's still required or at least desirable under some circumstances.
If it could be improved, it would be good.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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