Tom Lane escribió:
> Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> writes:

> > A slight variation on the committed approach would be to add a "_scannable"
> > relation fork.
> 
> Not very transaction-safe, I think (consider crash midway through a
> transaction that adds or removes the fork), and in any case orders of
> magnitude more expensive than looking at a pg_class field.  This really
> needs to be catalog state, not filesystem state.

We could revive the pg_class_nt patch proposed a decade ago, perhaps ...

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