Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.
Date: 2015-10-05 14:27:16
Message-ID: CANP8+jJat1=rjLtFAXo_F_oXNAYUwyfdGAVFLoJUEzMZ8yP4wA@mail.gmail.com
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On 10 September 2015 at 01:58, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> On 2015-09-04 23:35:42 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > This looks OK. You saw that I was proposing to solve this problem a
> > different way ("Summary of plans to avoid the annoyance of Freezing"),
> > suggesting that we wait for a few CFs to see if a patch emerges for that
> -
> > then fall back to this patch if it doesn't? So I am moving this patch to
> > next CF.
>
> As noted on that other thread I don't think that's a good policy, and it
> seems like Robert agrees with me. So I think we should move this back to
> "Needs Review".
>

I also agree. Andres and I spoke at PostgresOpen and persuaded me, I've
just been away.

Am happy to review and commit in next few days/weeks, once I catch up on
the thread.

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