On 2021-Aug-25, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 2:06 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org> wrote:
> > I like it better than the current layout, so +1.
>
> This seems like a release housekeeping task to me. I'll come up with
> a patch targeting 14 and master in a few days.
Agreed, thanks.
> The question of whether or not we do an index scan (i.e. index
> vacuuming) depends entirely on the number of LP_DEAD items that heap
> pruning left behind in the table structure. [...]
Ooh, this was illuminating -- thanks for explaining. TBH I would have
been very confused if asked to explain what that log line meant; and now
that I know what it means, I am even more convinced that we need to work
harder at it :-)
I'll see if I can come up with something ...
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