Sunday, September 7, 2008

Re: [HACKERS] Prototype: In-place upgrade v02

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I didn't see anything that looked like an immediate change in user table
>> contents, unless they used the "name" type; but what of relation forks?
>
> Relation forks didn't change anything inside relation files, so no scanning of
> relations is required because of that. Neither will the FSM rewrite. Not sure
> about DSM yet.

And just to confirm -- they don't change the name of the files the postmaster
expects to find in its data directory, right?

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