Hi,
On 2018-12-11 07:09:34 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > We got another report today [1] that seems to be due to the problem
> > we've seen before with failed vacuum truncations leaving corrupt state
> > on-disk [2]. Reflecting on that some more, [...]
>
> This may seem heretical, but I'll say it anyway.
>
> Why don't we do away with vacuum truncation for good?
> Is that a feature that does anybody any good?
> To me it has always seemed to be more a wart than a feature, like
> someone just thought it was low hanging fruit without considering
> all the implications.
There's a lot of workloads that I've seen that'd regress. And probably a
lot more that we don't know about. I don't see how we could go there.
Greetings,
Andres Freund