Thom Brown <t...@linux.com> writes:
>> On 11 November 2011 23:28, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> I observe that _bt_delitems_vacuum() unconditionally dirties the page
>>> and writes a WAL record, whether it has anything to do or not; and that
>>> if XLogStandbyInfoActive() then btvacuumscan will indeed call it despite
>>> there being (probably) nothing useful to do.  Seems like that could be
>>> improved.  The comment explaining why it's necessary to do that doesn't
>>> make any sense to me, either.

>> Well the effect, in the single instances I've checked, is certainly
>> more pronounced for hot_standby, but there still appears to be some
>> occurrences for minimal wal_level too.

> So would you say this is acceptable and normal activity, or is
> something awry here?

Well, it's expected given the current coding in the btree vacuum logic.
It's not clear to me why it was written like that, though.

                        regards, tom lane

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