Hi, On 2018-02-24 03:07:28 +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote: > I agree having to restart the whole operation after a crash is not > ideal, but I don't see how adding a flag actually solves it. The problem > is the large databases often store most of the data (>80%) in one or two > central tables (think fact tables in star schema, etc.). So if you > crash, it's likely half-way while processing this table, so the whole > table would still have relchecksums=false and would have to be processed > from scratch.
I don't think it's quite as large a problem as you make it out to be. Even in those cases you'll usually have indexes, toast tables and so forth. > But perhaps you meant something like "position" instead of just a simple > true/false flag? I think that'd incur a much larger complexity cost. Greetings, Andres Freund
