From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Reviewing freeze map code
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 13:54:09 -0700
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On 05/06/2016 01:50 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>> Let's add VACUUM (FORCE) or something like that.
>
> Yes, that makes sense.
>
>
>> This is actually inverted. Vacuum by default should vacuum the entire
>> relation
>
> What? Why on earth would that be a good idea? Not to speak of hte fact
> that that's not been the case since ~8.4?
Sorry, I just meant the default behavior shouldn't change but I do agree
that we need the ability to keep the same behavior.
>> ,however if we are going to keep the existing behavior of this
>> patch, VACUUM (FROZEN) seems to be better than (FORCE)?
>
> There already is FREEZE - meaning something different - so I doubt it.
Yeah I thought about that, it is the word "FORCE" that bothers me. When
you use FORCE there is an assumption that no matter what, it plows
through (think rm -f). So if we don't use FROZEN, that's cool but FORCE
doesn't work either.
Sincerely,
JD
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