> Here's two ideas I had for optimizing vacuum, I apologize in advance
> if the ideas presented here are niave and don't take into account
> the actual code that makes up postgresql.
>
> ================
>
> #1
>
> Reducing the time vacuum must hold an exlusive lock on a table:
>
> The idea is that since rows are marked deleted it's ok for the
> vacuum to fill them with data from the tail of the table as
> long as no transaction is in progress that has started before
> the row was deleted.
>
> This may allow the vacuum process to copyback all the data without
> a lock, when all the copying is done it then aquires an exlusive lock
> and does this:
>
> Aquire an exclusive lock.
> Walk all the deleted data marking it as current.
> Truncate the table.
> Release the lock.
>
> Since the data is still marked invalid (right?) even if valid data
> is copied into the space it should be ignored as long as there's no
> transaction occurring that started before the data was invalidated.
Added to TODO:
* Reduce VACUUM lock time by moving tuples with read lock, then write lock and truncate table [vacuum]
The read-lock is required because other transactions must be prevented
from modifying the rows, and the index is also an issue.
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