Re: [HACKERS] Resurrecting per-page cleaner for btree

From: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org, teramoto(dot)junji(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Resurrecting per-page cleaner for btree
Date: 2006-07-24 19:48:03
Message-ID: Pine.OSF.4.61.0607242239230.422162@kosh.hut.fi
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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> Personally I don't think retail vacuuming in that form will ever fly
> anyway, so I have no problem with installing the proposed patch,
> but I thought I'd better throw this comment out to see if anyone
> thinks it's a big deal.

My feeling is that retail vacuuming would be useful some day. But it's
certainly not going to be there in 8.2 so I have no objection with the
patch. It's a fairly localized change; it can easily be reverted later if
necessary.

- Heikki

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