From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: visibility maps and heap_prune |
Date: | 2009-01-20 17:04:31 |
Message-ID: | 4976041F.1070707@enterprisedb.com |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Pavan Deolasee wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <
>>> heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you see a straightforward way, please submit a patch!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Will do that.
>>>
>>>
>> Here is a patch which implements this. The PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag is set if all
>> tuples in the page are visible to all transactions and there are no DEAD
>> line pointers in the page. The second check is required so that VACUUM takes
>> up the page. We could slightly distinguish the two cases (one where the page
>> requires vacuuming only because of DEAD line pointers and the other where
>> the page-tuples do not require any visibility checks), but I thought its not
>> worth the complexity.
>
> Is this patch for 8.4?
We already went through this:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/496F6A8E.8020908@enterprisedb.com
I guess I'll follow Robert's advice and add this to the first 8.5 commit
fest page.
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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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