REVIEW Single pass vacuum - take 2

On 08/22/2011 01:22 AM, Pavan Deolasee wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Here is a revised patch based on our earlier discussion. I implemented
> Robert's idea of tracking the vacuum generation number in the line
> pointer itself. For LP_DEAD line pointers, the lp_off/lp_len is unused
> (and always set to 0 for heap tuples). We use those 30 bits to store
> the generation number of the vacuum which would have potentially
> removed the corresponding index pointers, if the vacuum finished
> successfully. The pg_class information is used to know the status of
> the vacuum, whether it failed or succeeded. 30-bit numbers are large
> enough that we can ignore any wrap-around related issues. With this
> change, we don't need any additional header or special space in the
> page which was one of the main objection to the previous version.
>
> Other than this major change, I have added code commentary at relevant
> places and also fixed the item.h comments to reflect the change. I
> think the patch is ready for a serious review now.
>
> Thanks,
> Pavan
>

Hi Pavan, I tried to apply your patch to git master (as of just now) and it failed.  I assume that's what I should be
checkingout, right?
 

-Andy