Re: Checking for missing heap/index files

On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:06:12PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> One idea might be for each heap table to have a metapage and store the
> length - or an upper bound on the length - in the metapage. That'd
> probably be cheaper than updating pg_class, but might still be
> expensive in some scenarios, and it's a fairly large amount of
> engineering.

I agree --- it would be nice, but might be hard to justify the
engineering and overhead involved.  I guess I was just checking that I
wasn't missing something obvious.

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