Re: Remaining beta blockers

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Remaining beta blockers
Date: 2013-05-03 16:05:52
Message-ID: 20130503160552.GW4361@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Andres Freund (andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
> The problem with an extra metadata fork is that it essentially would
> double the files in a cluster and it would also noticeably increase the
> amount of open files we need.

Why would we need it for every relation? We have other forks (fsm, vm),
but they exist when needed.

I'm more concerned about moving information which really should be in
the system catalogs out into magic files on disk..

Thanks,

Stephen

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