Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - if we make these changes, we will need some way to delete a > no-longer-visible relfilenode.
This is presuming that we abandon the notion that system catalog access use SnapshotNow. Which opens the question of what they should use instead ... to which "transaction snapshot" isn't the answer, because we have to be able to do system catalog accesses before we've set the snapshot. (Else forget issuing LOCK TABLE before the snapshot is set.) I really think that you haven't the faintest idea of the size of the can of worms you are opening here :-( regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings