On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 8, 2008, at 8:35 PM, Jonah H. Harris wrote: >> That's my question. Why is this needed at all? > > I suspect this is to deal with needing to reserve space in a cluster that > you're planning on upgrading to a new version that would take more space, > but I think the implementation is probably too simplistic.
Well, if that's what it is, I think it's a fairly poor design decision. When I upgrade Oracle, SQL Server, or MySQL, I don't need to plan the amount of free space in my blocks a year or more before an upgrade. In fact, I don't have to plan it at all... it's completely handled by the in-place upgrade. -- Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA myYearbook.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
