Jamison, Kirk wrote:
> On February 1, 2019, Tsunakawa, Takayuki wrote:
>
> > > As most people seem to agree adding the reloption, here's the patch.
> > > It passes make check, and works like this:
> > Sorry, I forgot to include the modified header file. Revised patch attached.
>
> I wonder if there is a better reloption name for shrink_enabled. (truncate_enabled, vacuum_enabled? Hmm. No?)
> On the other hand, shrink_enabled seems to describe well what it's supposed to do when vacuuming tables.
> Besides there's a similarly-named autovacuum_enabled option.
I like "shrink_enabled".
It may sound weird in the ears of PostgreSQL hackers, but will make sense to users.
Perhaps "vacuum_shrink_enabled" would be even better.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe