Re: [Proposal] Allow users to specify multiple tables in VACUUM commands

Nathan Bossart <bossartn@amazon.com>

From: "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>
Cc: Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2017-09-04T14:47:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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On 9/4/17, 7:14 AM, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com> wrote:
> On 9/3/17, 11:46 PM, "Michael Paquier" <michael.paquier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did not consider first that the list portion also needed to be
>> modified, perhaps because I am not coding that myself... So now that
>> it is becoming more complicated what about just using AutovacMemCxt?
>> This would simplify the list of VacuumRelation entries and the
>> RangeVar creation as well, and honestly this is ugly and there are no
>> other similar patterns in the backend code:
>
> +1

I've made this change in v14 of the main patch.

In case others had opinions regarding the de-duplication patch, I've
attached that again as well.

Nathan

Commits

  1. Allow multiple tables to be specified in one VACUUM or ANALYZE command.

  2. Give a better error for duplicate entries in VACUUM/ANALYZE column list.

  3. Reject ANALYZE commands during VACUUM FULL or another ANALYZE.