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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Ilsa Loving <[email protected]>
To: Alvaro Herrera <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What does "Table rewrite" mean?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:59:07 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
That’s all that’s needed, really. It’s impossible to make an
informed decision if there is no way for someone to know what a table
rewrite actually does and how it does it.
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On 20 Jan 2018, at 22:47, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
> PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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