Re: WIP: Avoid creation of the free space map for small tables

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

To: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

Cc: Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2019-02-23T00:02:10Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 2019-Feb-22, Peter Geoghegan wrote:

> I find it suspicious that there is another crash in pageinspect's
> brin_page_items(), since like amcheck, pageinspect is a contrib module
> that relies on BLCKSZ when allocating a local temp buffer.

Ah.  Maybe they just weren't rebuilt.

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Commits

Improve code comments in b0eaa4c51b.
- 06c8a5090ed9 12.0 landed
During pg_upgrade, conditionally skip transfer of FSMs.
- 13e8643bfc29 12.0 landed
Add more tests for FSM.
- 6f918159a97a 12.0 landed
Doc: Update the documentation for FSM behavior for small tables.
- 29d108cdecbe 12.0 landed
Make FSM test portable.
- 08ecdfe7e5e0 12.0 landed
Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations, take 2.
- b0eaa4c51bbf 12.0 landed
Move page initialization from RelationAddExtraBlocks() to use, take 2.
- 0d1fe9f74e36 12.0 cited
Avoid creation of the free space map for small heap relations.
- ac88d2962a96 12.0 landed
In bootstrap mode, don't allow the creation of files if they don't already
- d66e3664b8ba 12.0 landed