Re: reloption to prevent VACUUM from truncating empty pages at theend of relation

At Wed, 10 Apr 2019 02:00:03 +0900, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 1:07 PM Kyotaro HORIGUCHI
> <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> >
> > Hello.
> >
> > At Mon, 8 Apr 2019 19:22:04 +0900, Fujii Masao <masao.fujii@gmail.com> wrote in
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> > > > "TRUNCATE" option for vacuum command should be added to the open items?
> > >
> > > Yes, I think.
> > > Attached is the patch which adds TRUNCATE option into VACUUM.
> >
> > By the way, this might have been discussed upthread, but boolean
> > options of VACUUM command is defaulted to true. So, it seems to
> > me that the name is better (or convenient to me) to be
> > SKIP_TRUNCATE. The name of the reloption seems good to me.
> 
> If we really use SKIP_TRUNCATE, we need to use SKIP_INDEX_CLEANUP
> instead of INDEX_CLEANUP for the consistency. But TRUNCATE and
> INDEX_CLEANUP look more intuitive to me than SKIP_TRUNCATE and
> SKIP_INDEX_CLEANUP.

Ah, yes, we already have INDEX_CLEANUP. I'm fine with TRUNCATE.

regards.

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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center