Florian Pflug wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas wrote: >> That's a pretty sensitive tradeoff, we want to prune often to cut the >> long HOT chains, but not too often because it's pretty expensive to >> acquire the vacuum lock and move tuples around. I don't think we've >> found the optimal solution yet. Separating the pruning and defragmenting >> might help. > > Does defragmenting force writing a full page image to the WAL afterwards? > Or does it just log the fact that the page was defragmented, and the actual > work is redone on recovery?
No, you just log a note that it was defragmented. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster