Re: Vacuumlo improvements

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Shawn McCoy <shawn(dot)the(dot)mccoy(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuumlo improvements
Date: 2026-05-14 03:10:28
Message-ID: agU9JPim3XNwRJ4b@nathan
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On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:00:15PM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> Commit 64c604898e added the note about domains to the docs. Unfortunately,
> neither that nor the corresponding thread [0] offer any clues as to why
> vacuumlo doesn't resolve domains. The commit history for vacuumlo has been
> pretty quiet for a long time, so maybe it's just been overlooked.

It seems to be relatively easy to teach vacuumlo to handle domains over
oid. Note that you need a recursive query because you can have domains
over domains. Please test it out. I noticed that vacuumlo's tests are
pretty sad, so this might be a good opportunity to change that.

--
nathan

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