Re: WIP patch for system-catalog vacuuming via a relation map

Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> >> Barring objections I'm going to press ahead with completing and
> >> committing this; then in a separate patch remove VACUUM FULL INPLACE.
>
> > Was it our determination that we could remove VFI if we eliminated the
> > system catalogs? I'm fine with it, I just thought some people had a
> > marginal use case for VFI.
>
> I thought the consensus was to remove it if possible. There may still
> be some "marginal" use cases, but they don't justify the work that'd
> be needed to make it play safely with HS; let alone fixing the other
> longstanding gotchas with it, like the double-commit risk.

Oh, yea, I remember, HS killed it because of the work required to make
FULL work for 9.0. Thanks.

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