Re: Fixes inconsistent behavior in vacuum when it processes multiple relations

On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:34:19AM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> Hmm. I like the simplicity of option 2) for the purpose the back
> branches and the post-feature-freeze v18.

Yeah, let's do this for now.

> However, Option 1) would be my go-to option for HEAD (as of v19
> opening for business), but I think that we should harden the code more
> than suggested and treat all VacuumParams as purely input arguments
> rather keeping some pointers to it depending on the code path we are
> dealing with, so as no callers of these inner routines is surprised by
> changes that may happen internally. Hence, reading the code of v2,
> I'd suggest to apply the same rule to vacuum_get_cutoffs(),
> do_analyze_rel() and heap_vacuum_rel(). Except if I am missing
> something, it looks like all these calls should be OK with this new
> policy. This implies also changing relation_vacuum() in tableam.h,
> which can be a HEAD-only change anyway.

Sounds reasonable to me.

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nathan