Hi, On 2018-12-11 07:09:34 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > We got another report today [1] that seems to be due to the problem > > we've seen before with failed vacuum truncations leaving corrupt state > > on-disk [2]. Reflecting on that some more, [...] > > This may seem heretical, but I'll say it anyway. > > Why don't we do away with vacuum truncation for good? > Is that a feature that does anybody any good? > To me it has always seemed to be more a wart than a feature, like > someone just thought it was low hanging fruit without considering > all the implications.
There's a lot of workloads that I've seen that'd regress. And probably a lot more that we don't know about. I don't see how we could go there. Greetings, Andres Freund
