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

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa.takay@jp.fujitsu.com>, 'Andres Freund' <andres@anarazel.de>, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, "Bossart, Nathan" <bossartn@amazon.com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, "Jamison, Kirk" <k.jamison@jp.fujitsu.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-04-08T04:51:50Z
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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.

On 2019-Apr-08, Tom Lane wrote:

> The closest match to that name, probably, is just "vacuum_truncate" ---
> which was proposed at the beginning of March, but apparently also
> rejected, because there's no subsequent reference.

"vacuum_truncate" gets my vote too.

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