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To: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What does "Table rewrite" mean?
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 00:47:50 -0300
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Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:33:43AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > It means reading the whole table and writing it out in some modified
> > form (for instance, with some column transformed into a new datatype).
> > It's not "dangerous" in any way ... but if you've got many GB of data in
> > the table and you can't afford to have the table locked for a long time,
> > then it's something to avoid.
>
> Yeah that can be costly. Note that WAL corresponding to this data needs
> to be generated as well.
Maybe we need to document this somewhere, particularly now that we have
a "table_rewrite" event item.
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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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