Re: New strategies for freezing, advancing relfrozenxid early

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
To: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
Cc: Matthias van de Meent <boekewurm+postgres(at)gmail(dot)com>, John Naylor <john(dot)naylor(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New strategies for freezing, advancing relfrozenxid early
Date: 2023-01-02 19:45:11
Message-ID: CAH2-WzmQjX1FiwZfBy-LrNZ5KJc2tMjvk=oW2sYoDBLYuq=ANQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 12:45 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 11:46 AM Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com> wrote:
> > "We have no freeze plans to execute, so there's no cost to following
> > the freeze path. This is important in the case where the page is
> > entirely frozen already, so that the page will be marked as such in the
> > VM."
>
> I'm happy to use your wording instead -- I'll come up with a patch for that.

What do you think of the wording adjustments in the attached patch?
It's based on your suggested wording.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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0001-Tweak-page-level-freezing-comments.patch application/octet-stream 4.1 KB

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