| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg S <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table. |
| Date: | 2016-03-02 23:41:30 |
| Message-ID: | 21963.1456962090@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> writes:
> On 3/2/16 4:21 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> I think you should commit this. The chances of anyone other than you
>> and Masahiko recalling that you developed this tool in 3 years is
>> essentially nil. I think that the cost of committing a developer-level
>> debugging tool like this is very low. Modules like pg_freespacemap
>> currently already have no chance of being of use to ordinary users.
>> All you need to do is restrict the functions to throw an error when
>> called by non-superusers, out of caution.
>>
>> It's a problem that modules like pg_stat_statements and
>> pg_freespacemap are currently lumped together in the documentation,
>> but we all know that.
> +1.
Would it make any sense to stick it under src/test/modules/ instead of
contrib/ ? That would help make it clear that it's a debugging tool
and not something we expect end users to use.
regards, tom lane
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