Re: Max compact as an FSM strategy

2022-07-26 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 11:02, Dilip Kumar wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 3:04 PM Simon Riggs > wrote: > > > > A long time ago, Tom Lane came up with the idea that when tables get > > bloated, tables might be allowed to shrink down again in size > > naturally by altering the way FSM allocates

Re: Max compact as an FSM strategy

2022-07-26 Thread Dilip Kumar
On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 3:04 PM Simon Riggs wrote: > > A long time ago, Tom Lane came up with the idea that when tables get > bloated, tables might be allowed to shrink down again in size > naturally by altering the way FSM allocates blocks. That's a very good > idea, but we didn't implement it ba

Max compact as an FSM strategy

2022-07-26 Thread Simon Riggs
A long time ago, Tom Lane came up with the idea that when tables get bloated, tables might be allowed to shrink down again in size naturally by altering the way FSM allocates blocks. That's a very good idea, but we didn't implement it back then... This patch allows the Heap to specify what FreeSpa