Re: OID Usage

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Bo Lorentsen <bl(at)netgroup(dot)dk>, "pgsql-general postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OID Usage
Date: 2005-01-15 22:06:47
Message-ID: 12295.1105826807@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> Which reminds me that you wanted to make VACUUM FULL do the equivalent
> of a REINDEX instead of retail deletion of index entries ... is that
> still the idea? Would it do that always, or only under certain
> conditions?

It's still on the to-do list. I ws envisioning that it would switch
strategies based on how many tuples it needed to move --- the REINDEX
is only a win if you're moving a large fraction of the table. But the
details are all still TBD.

regards, tom lane

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