Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ah, there's another reason, and it's that I'm rewriting the tuple in > > place, not calling heap_update. > > Is that really a good idea, as compared to using heap_update?
Not sure -- we would leave dead tuples after the VACUUM is finished if we used heap_update, no? ISTM it's undesirable. > (Now, if you're combining this with the very grotty relpages/reltuples > update code, then I'm all for making that xlog properly --- we've gotten > away without it so far but it really should xlog the change.) I hadn't done that, but I'll see what I can do. Notice however that I'm doing this in both pg_class _and_ pg_database. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
