Re: Update comment for README.HOT
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-09-17T21:23:28Z
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Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes: > > + This means that UPDATE, DELETE, and SELECT can trigger space > > + reclamation, while INSERT ... VALUES cannot because it does not retrieve > > + a row. > > I don't believe that's correct. It might have happened to work that way > for you in a particular test. It's certainly not something I'd document > as being intended long-term behavior. Well, I would like to document something about this because I was surprised that when INSERT did not trigger a cleanup. I realize we might change the behavior but then we would update the file too, hopefully. How is the attached version using "often"? I also clarified it is < 10% free. I found this while doing tests for a new MVCC talk I will be delivering at PG West. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. +