On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andres Freund <and...@2ndquadrant.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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
