Re: New vacuum option to do only freezing

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi(dot)kyotaro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn(at)amazon(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New vacuum option to do only freezing
Date: 2019-04-17 19:20:26
Message-ID: CAH2-Wz=OeXgWHc47QzVwhrGKx8=-9wu1EO3q6AgiGdijjKaZHA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 10:46 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Yeah, if we wanted to expose these complications more directly, we
> could think about adding or changing the main counters. I was wondering
> about whether we should have it report "x bytes and y line pointers
> freed", rather than counting tuples per se.

I like that idea, but I'm pretty sure that there are very few users
that are aware of these distinctions at all. It would be a good idea
to clearly document them.

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Peter Geoghegan

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