Tom Lane wrote:
Galy Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
If we can stop at any point, we can make maintenance memory large
sufficient to contain all of the dead tuples, then we only need to
clean index for once. No matter how many times vacuum stops,
indexes are cleaned for once.
I beg your pardon? You're the one who's been harping on the
table-so-large-it-takes-days-to-vacuum scenario. How you figure that
you can store all the dead TIDs in working memory?
This reminds me of an idea I had while looking at the bitmap index
patch: We could store the dead TIDs more efficiently in a bitmap,
allowing tables to be vacuumed in lesser cycles.
Of course, that's orthogonal to the above discussion.
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