Re: Reviewing freeze map code

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reviewing freeze map code
Date: 2016-05-06 20:58:21
Message-ID: 20160506205821.GE10850@tamriel.snowman.net
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* Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
> 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.

Isn't that exactly what this FORCE option being contemplated would do
though? Plow through the entire relation, regardless of what the VM
says is all frozen or not?

Seems like FORCE is a good word for that to me.

Thanks!

Stephen

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