Re: HOT line pointer bloat and PageRepairFragmentation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: HOT line pointer bloat and PageRepairFragmentation
Date: 2007-09-13 14:42:28
Message-ID: 14680.1189694548@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> How about passing a boolean to PageRepairFragmentation to
> command it to reclaim unused line pointers ?

The difficulty with this is having to be 100% confident that noplace in
the system tries to dereference a TID without checking that the line
number (offset) is within range. At one time that was demonstrably
not so. I think we've cleaned up most if not all such places, but
I wouldn't want to swear to it.

I'm not convinced it's worth taking any risk for.

regards, tom lane

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