Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > The current terminology of live and dead is already used in many places in > > the > > documentation and in userspace; mostly around the need for maintainance of > > dead tuples within tables, reindex cleaning up dead pages, and even in the > > vacuum commands outp

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> The current terminology of live and dead is already used in many places in > the > documentation and in userspace; mostly around the need for maintainance of > dead tuples within tables, reindex cleaning up dead pages, and even in the > vacuum commands output (n dead tuples cannot be removed

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 23:12, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > >> I'm not really convinced that Bruce's proposed names seem any better > > >> to me. What's wrong with "dead" and "live"? > > > > > > In my mind,

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >> I'm not really convinced that Bruce's proposed names seem any better to > >> me. What's wrong with "dead" and "live"? > > > In my mind, visible really means "visible to anyone", and expired means > > visibl

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> I'm not really convinced that Bruce's proposed names seem any better to >> me. What's wrong with "dead" and "live"? > In my mind, visible really means "visible to anyone", and expired means > visible to no one. Um ... surely, v

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Patch(es) to expose n_live_tuples and

2006-12-26 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 13:59 -0800, Glen Parker wrote: >> I'd love to see this back patched into 8.2.1 if possible. > Probably not. We typically do not introduce new features into back > releases. And since this one would require an initdb, there is