On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Tom Lane wrote:

* Shrink a table in place - when no space available
To be addressed by the UPDATE-style tuple-mover (which could be thought
of as VACUUM FULL rewritten to not use any special mechanisms).

Is there any synergy here with the needs of a future in-place upgrade upgrade mechanism that handles page header expansion? That problem seemed to always get stuck on the issue of how to move tuples around when the pages were full. Not trying to drag the scope of this job out, just looking for common ground that might be considered when designing the tuple-mover if it could serve both purposes.

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