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Re: btree fast-root on VACUUM FULL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: btree fast-root on VACUUM FULL
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In response to btree fast-root on VACUUM FULL  (Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>)
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Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]> writes:
> Would it be right to set the fast-root as true root during a VACUUM
> FULL?  This would free all pages between true root and fast root.

Possibly okay, but why bother?  It's hardly likely to free a meaningful
number of pages.  And I think you'd need to invent another category of
WAL record to log the action, so the code overhead to make it happen
isn't trivial.
        regards, tom lane


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