Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, "'Michael Paquier'" <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "'Robert Haas'" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "Jamison, Kirk" <k(dot)jamison(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation
Date: 2019-02-28 05:54:55
Message-ID: 28693.1551333295@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Hopefully we'll get Tom's patch that addresses the failure-to-truncate
> issues in pg12.

Hm, are you speaking of the handwaving I did in
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/2348.1544474335@sss.pgh.pa.us
?

I wasn't really working on that for v12 --- I figured it was way
too late in the cycle to be starting on such a significant change.
Still, if we did manage to make that work, it would remove the need
for user-visible kluges like the one discussed in this thread.

regards, tom lane

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