Re: Reducing relation locking overhead

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Subject: Re: Reducing relation locking overhead
Date: 2005-12-03 23:32:17
Message-ID: 1133652737.2906.791.camel@localhost.localdomain
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On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 17:16 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
>
> > Understood. At 7.3, REINDEXing is essential, since rows never got
> > deleted and space was not reused. That is not the case now, hence a
> > REINDEX is less often required.
>
> But it's still required or at least desirable under some circumstances.
> If it could be improved, it would be good.

100% Agreed. I just think having an online CREATE INDEX is a much more
important thing, FWIW.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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