Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Pavan Deolasee <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com>wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <
> > heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> If you see a straightforward way, please submit a patch!
> >>
> >>
> > Will do that.
> >
> >
>
> Here is a patch which implements this. The PD_ALL_VISIBLE flag is set if all
> tuples in the page are visible to all transactions and there are no DEAD
> line pointers in the page. The second check is required so that VACUUM takes
> up the page. We could slightly distinguish the two cases (one where the page
> requires vacuuming only because of DEAD line pointers and the other where
> the page-tuples do not require any visibility checks), but I thought its not
> worth the complexity.
Is this patch for 8.4?
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