Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation

From: Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
Cc: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "Jamison, Kirk" <k(dot)jamison(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation
Date: 2019-02-25 07:47:28
Message-ID: CAOBaU_YUto9qW=RmqfGn6gUqdKrB8L1Pw1CG=ng37xxRdD2Fww@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 7:56 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 02:38:05AM +0000, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:
> > From: Julien Rouhaud [mailto:rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com]
> >> One last thing, I think we should at least add one regression test for
> >> this setting. The one you provided previously seems perfectly suited.
> >
> > Thanks, added.
>
> +SELECT pg_relation_size('reloptions_test');
> + pg_relation_size
> +------------------
> + 8192
> +(1 row)
> This makes the test page-size sensitive. While we don't ensure that
> tests can be run with different page sizes, we should make a maximum
> effort to keep the tests compatible if that's easy enough. In this
> case you could just use > 0 as base comparison. I can fix that by
> myself, so no need to send a new version.

Ah good point. We could also use something like
pg_relation_size('reloptions_test') /
current_setting('block_size')::bigint but >0 should be enough for this
test.

> Should we also document that the parameter is effective for
> autovacuum? The name can lead to confusion regarding that.

+1

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