Re: New FSM patch

From: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New FSM patch
Date: 2008-09-18 18:57:34
Message-ID: 48D2A49E.8050800@enterprisedb.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I did a bit of testing and immediately got an Assert failure:
>
> ...
>
> The scary part of that is that it gets through the regression tests ---
> doesn't leave one with a warm feeling about how much of VACUUM gets
> exercised by regression.

Ouch..

> I take it the comment at the top of indexfsm.c about using one bit per
> page should be recast as a possible future improvement?

Yep. I also noted that the code in GetIndexFreeSpace() didn't match the
comment above it.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

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