Re: Free space mapping (was Re: Multi-Versions and Vacuum)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mark Kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org, Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info>
Date: 2002-08-29T15:57:53Z
Lists: pgsql-general
I said:
> Mark Kirkwood <markir@slingshot.co.nz> writes:
>> With respect to the REINDEX workaround -  having to re-start your server 
>> single process for it is a bit fatal if you are  24/7 shop

> You don't have to do that for a TOAST table, do you?  It should be okay
> to do the reindex in multiuser mode.

> (Now that I think about it, the code might think that a toast table is a
> system table, in which case we ought to loosen the check a little.)

REINDEX did think that.  CVS tip doesn't think it anymore ;-)

			regards, tom lane