| From: | Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg S <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table. |
| Date: | 2016-03-02 23:32:19 |
| Message-ID: | 56D77803.6080503@BlueTreble.com |
| Views: | Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email |
| Thread: | |
| Lists: | pgsql-hackers |
On 3/2/16 4:21 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> I think you should commit this. The chances of anyone other than you
> and Masahiko recalling that you developed this tool in 3 years is
> essentially nil. I think that the cost of committing a developer-level
> debugging tool like this is very low. Modules like pg_freespacemap
> currently already have no chance of being of use to ordinary users.
> All you need to do is restrict the functions to throw an error when
> called by non-superusers, out of caution.
>
> It's a problem that modules like pg_stat_statements and
> pg_freespacemap are currently lumped together in the documentation,
> but we all know that.
+1.
--
Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
Experts in Analytics, Data Architecture and PostgreSQL
Data in Trouble? Get it in Treble! http://BlueTreble.com
| From | Date | Subject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Message | Jim Nasby | 2016-03-02 23:36:20 | Re: Convert pltcl from strings to objects |
| Previous Message | David G. Johnston | 2016-03-02 23:29:32 | WHERE clause not used when index is used (9.5) |