Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Gabriele Bartolini <gabriele(dot)bartolini(at)2ndquadrant(dot)it>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL
Date: 2011-05-02 17:05:15
Message-ID: BANLkTim9XMN=U-8NRp9TYDbhrz3m-qd2ug@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Yeah, it would help during the initial scan
>> of the old rel, but not during the sort or reindex steps.
>
> As Greg points out, the sort is not really of concern (for now).

Though I was surprised the reindex isn't an equally big problem. It
might matter a lot what the shape of the schema is. If you have lots
of indexes the index wal might be larger than the table rebuild.

--
greg

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