On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Petr Jelinek <p...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: >> Second, if the other backend extended the relation in >> some other manner and did not extend the FSM, how does calling >> RecordAndGetPageWithFreeSpace help? As far as I can see, >> GetPageWithFreeSpace and RecordAndGetPageWithFreeSpace are both just >> searching the FSM, so if one is stymied the other will be too. What >> am I missing? >> > > The RecordAndGetPageWithFreeSpace will extend FSM as it calls > fsm_set_and_search which in turn calls fsm_readbuf with extend = true.
So how does that help? If I'm reading this right, the new block will be all zeroes which means no space available on any of those pages. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
