Re: [PATCHES] VACUUM Improvements - WIP Patch

Tom Lane wrote:
> [ off-list ]
>
> "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I'm not sure how important it will really be once we have support for
>>> dead-space-map-driven vacuum.
>
>> Is that something we can expect any time soon? I haven't heard much
>> about it really happening for 8.4.
>
> AFAIK Heikki has every intention of making it happen for 8.4. I'll
> let him answer on-list, though.

I do. Unfortunately I've been swamped, and still am, with other stuff,
and have had zero time to work on it :-(.

My current plan is to finish the FSM rewrite for/during the September
commit fest, and submit a patch for dead-space-map driven VACUUM for the
November commit fest.

My original plan was to enable index-only-scans using the DSM as well
for 8.4, but it's pretty clear at this point that I don't have the time
to finish that :-(.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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