Re: Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation

From: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, David Steele <david(at)pgmasters(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "Jamison, Kirk" <k(dot)jamison(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation
Date: 2019-04-08 00:57:40
Message-ID: CAD21AoC4+PxgfEhL5N+-pi63aXZuFLuTQpZWJ1yPJU7BAmxumw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:52 AM Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 6, 2019 at 2:04 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:19 PM Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > > As INDEX_CLEANUP option has been added by commit a96c41f, the new
> > > option for this feature could also accept zero or one boolean
> > > argument, that is SHRINK_TABLE [true|false] and true by default.
> > > Explicit options on VACUUM command overwrite options set by
> > > reloptions. And if the boolean argument is omitted the option depends
> > > on the reloptions.
> >
> > Yes, I think that's how it should work, because that's how the other
> > option works, and there's no compelling reason to be consistent.
> >
> > My preference is for "truncate" over "shrink".
>
> +1
>
> Attached is the updated version of the patch.
> I just replaced "shrink" with "truncate" and rebased the patch
> on the master.

Thank you for updating the patch! "vacuum_truncate" option would be
more consistent with vacuum_index_cleanup option rather than
"vacuum_truncate_enabled' option?

> I'm thinking to commit this patch at first.
> We can change the term and add the support of "TRUNCATE" option
> for VACUUM command later.

+1

Regards,

--
Masahiko Sawada
NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
NTT Open Source Software Center

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