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RE: Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at the end of relation

Tsunakawa, Takayuki <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>

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From: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: 'Robert Haas' <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, "Jamison, Kirk" <k.jamison@jp.fujitsu.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, "Fujii Masao" <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-03-28T02:44:02Z
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  1. Add TRUNCATE parameter to VACUUM.

  2. Add vacuum_truncate reloption.

  3. Allow VACUUM to be run with index cleanup disabled.

From: Robert Haas [mailto:robertmhaas@gmail.com]
> You're both right and I'm wrong.
> 
> However, I think it would be better to stick with the term 'truncate'
> which is widely-used already, rather than introducing a new term.

Yeah, I have the same feeling.  OTOH, as I referred in this thread, shrink is used instead of truncate in the PostgreSQL documentation.  So, I chose shrink.  To repeat myself, I'm comfortable with either word.  I'd like the committer to choose what he thinks better.


Regards
Takayuki Tsunakawa