Re: Emit fewer vacuum records by reaping removable tuples during pruning

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Subject: Re: Emit fewer vacuum records by reaping removable tuples during pruning
Date: 2024-01-18 15:50:13
Message-ID: CA+TgmobS=4c4DnJr09+Kg9p+fiY_GBwkJo_czRFp9kCYoygXzA@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:42 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Now, that said, I suspect that we actually could reduce FSM_CATEGORIES
> somewhat without causing any real problems, because many tables are
> going to have tuples that are all about the same size, and even in a
> table where the sizes vary more than is typical, a single tuple can't
> consume more than a quarter of the page,

Actually, I think that's a soft limit, not a hard limit. But the
granularity above that level probably doesn't need to be very high, at
leat.

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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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