Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, "'Zeugswetter Andreas SB'" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
Date: 2001-05-23 19:31:10
Message-ID: 16593.990646270@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> I guess that is the question. Are we heading for an overwriting storage
>> manager?

> I've never heard that it was given up. So there seems to be
> at least a possibility to introduce it in the future.

Unless we want to abandon MVCC (which I don't), I think an overwriting
smgr is impractical. We need a more complex space-reuse scheme than
that.

regards, tom lane

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