On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2013-10-25 09:26:29 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> > In any case, it's very far from obvious to me that CLUSTER ought
>> > to throw away information by default, which is what you're proposing.
>>
>> I find it odd to referring to this as throwing away information. I
>> know that you have a general concern about throwing away XIDs that are
>> still needed for forensic purposes, but that is clearly the ONLY
>> purpose that those XIDs serve, and the I/O advantages of freezing by
>> default could be massive for many of our users. What's going to
>> happen in practice is that experienced users will simply recommend
>> CLUSTER FREEZE rather than plain CLUSTER, and you won't have the
>> forensic information *anyway*.
>
> I think we should just apply your "preserve forensic information when
> freezing" patch. Then we're good to go without big arguments ;)
Well, I'm happy with that, too. But you wanted it significantly
reworked and I haven't had time to do that.
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