Re: Rewriting Free Space Map

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: "Heikki Linnakangas" <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rewriting Free Space Map
Date: 2008-03-17 17:08:29
Message-ID: 14761.1205773709@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> One advantage of using separate relfilenodes would be that if we need to
> regenerate a map we could do it in a new relfilenode and swap it in like we do
> with heap rewrites.

You could probably do that using a temporary fork number, if the
situation ever came up.

regards, tom lane

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