On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Tom Lane wrote:
> Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Interesting thread. Now, I know absolutely nothing about how the data is
> > stored, but it strikes me as being non-optimal that every single block on
> > the disc needs to be written again just to update some hint bits.
Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Interesting thread. Now, I know absolutely nothing about how the data is
> stored, but it strikes me as being non-optimal that every single block on
> the disc needs to be written again just to update some hint bits. Could
> those bits be taken out into a separ
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 09:46 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > Even though there have been no rollbacks, updates, or deletes on this
> > table, the vacuum is writing as much as it is reading while dealing
> > with the TOAST data.
>
> Writing hint bits. Annoyi
