Re: WIP patch for system-catalog vacuuming via a relation map

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Barring objections I'm going to press ahead with completing and
>> committing this; then in a separate patch remove VACUUM FULL INPLACE.

> Was it our determination that we could remove VFI if we eliminated the
> system catalogs?  I'm fine with it, I just thought some people had a
> marginal use case for VFI.

I thought the consensus was to remove it if possible.  There may still
be some "marginal" use cases, but they don't justify the work that'd
be needed to make it play safely with HS; let alone fixing the other
longstanding gotchas with it, like the double-commit risk.
        regards, tom lane