Hi, On 2025-10-01 15:39:04 +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 13:58 +0200, Frits Hoogland wrote: > > I am proposing the database to have the ability to detect when it has > > missing segments. > > Just a random idea: one solution would be if each segment has a flag that > indicates > if that is the last segment or not. But that would break the on-disk storage > format, > unless there is room left for an extra flag somewhere in the current layout.
It'd also make extensions / truncations more complicated. I rather doubt we're going there. Right now relation extension aren't WAL logged. While there might be reasons to change that, I don't think this is enough justification for doing so. Greetings, Andres
