Re: Journal based VACUUM FULL

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se>
Cc: Ryan David Sheasby <ryan27968(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Journal based VACUUM FULL
Date: 2019-02-22 19:56:09
Message-ID: 26c0e9a8-930a-3172-cadb-205346eb0b95@2ndQuadrant.com
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On 2/22/19 2:15 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.

cheers

andrew

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