Re: Make relfile tombstone files conditional on WAL level

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dilip Kumar <dilipbalaut(at)gmail(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Make relfile tombstone files conditional on WAL level
Date: 2022-01-06 20:49:43
Message-ID: 20220106204943.yjvlofakbe5nm33k@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2022-01-06 08:52:01 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 3:47 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Another problem is that relfilenodes are normally allocated with
> > GetNewOidWithIndex(), and initially match a relation's OID. We'd need
> > a new allocator, and they won't be able to match the OID in general
> > (while we have 32 bit OIDs at least).
>
> Personally I'm not sad about that. Values that are the same in simple
> cases but diverge in more complex cases are kind of a trap for the
> unwary.

+1

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