On 2014-07-16 20:45:15 -0300, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> > The rewrite will read in the 'old' contents - but because it's done
> > after the pg_class.relpersistence is changed they'll all not be marked
> > as BM_PERMANENT in memory. Then the ALTER TABLE is rolled back,
> > including the relpersistence setting. Which will unfortunately leave
> > pages with the wrong persistency setting in memory, right?
> >
> 
> That means should I "FlushRelationBuffers(rel)" before change the
> relpersistence?

Did my explanation clarify the problem + possible solution sufficiently?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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