Re: Journal based VACUUM FULL

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>, Ryan David Sheasby <ryan27968(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Journal based VACUUM FULL
Date: 2019-02-22 23:21:21
Message-ID: 20190222232121.GE6197@tamriel.snowman.net
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Greetings,

* Andrew Dunstan (andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> On 2/22/19 2:15 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2019-02-21 16:27:06 +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> >> I have not heard many requests for bringing back the old behavior, but I
> >> could easily have missed them. Either way I do not think there would be much
> >> demand for an in-place VACUUM FULL unless the index bloat problem is also
> >> solved.
> > Yea, I don't think there's much either. What I think there's PLENTY need
> > for is something like pg_repack in core. And could argue that the
> > trigger based logging it does to catch up to changes made concurrently
> > with the rewrite, to the old table, is a form of journaling...
>
> +1. Maybe this is something that should be on the agenda of the next
> developers' meeting.

Seems more appropriate to the developer unconference, though perhaps
that's what you meant..?

Thanks!

Stephen

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