Re: CLUSTER FREEZE

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <munro(at)ip9(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CLUSTER FREEZE
Date: 2013-10-29 15:29:24
Message-ID: CA+TgmoaMXUeaaUgxWk_UH+-5COj6kA1tya7u220gnMhmPPTLiA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-25 09:26:29 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > In any case, it's very far from obvious to me that CLUSTER ought
>> > to throw away information by default, which is what you're proposing.
>>
>> I find it odd to referring to this as throwing away information. I
>> know that you have a general concern about throwing away XIDs that are
>> still needed for forensic purposes, but that is clearly the ONLY
>> purpose that those XIDs serve, and the I/O advantages of freezing by
>> default could be massive for many of our users. What's going to
>> happen in practice is that experienced users will simply recommend
>> CLUSTER FREEZE rather than plain CLUSTER, and you won't have the
>> forensic information *anyway*.
>
> I think we should just apply your "preserve forensic information when
> freezing" patch. Then we're good to go without big arguments ;)

Well, I'm happy with that, too. But you wanted it significantly
reworked and I haven't had time to do that.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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