Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, "'Zeugswetter Andreas SB'" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
Date: 2001-05-23 10:11:49
Message-ID: 3B0B8CE5.1D85B52D@tm.ee
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Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>
> People also have referred to an overwriting smgr easily.

I am all for an overwriting smgr, but as a feature that can be selected
on a table-by table basis (or at least in compile time), not as an
overall change

> Please tell me how to introduce an overwriting smgr
> without UNDO.

I would much more like a dead-space-reusing smgr on top of MVCC which
does
not touch live transactions.

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Hannu

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