Re: Add visibility map information to pg_freespace.

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Add visibility map information to pg_freespace.
Date: 2013-06-19 09:27:57
Message-ID: CA+U5nM+m0osdDWfxujxYCyrEmCie5nBcrUnMmR-2B1kiB+mXKw@mail.gmail.com
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On 19 June 2013 10:15, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2013-06-19 10:03:40 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
>> On 19 June 2013 09:19, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
>> <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>>
>> > It should useful in other aspects but it seems a bit complicated
>> > just to know about visibility bits for certain blocks.
>>
>> With your current patch you can only see the visibility info for
>> blocks in cache, not for all blocks. So while you may think it is
>> useful, it is also unnecessarily limited in scope.
>
> pg_freespace should do more than that? Are you thinking of
> pg_buffercache?

I was... my mistake. Please continue Kyotaro.

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