Re: Freeze avoidance of very large table.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about instead changing things so that we specifically reject
>> indexes?  And maybe some kind of a check that will reject anything
>> that lacks a relfilnode?  That seems like it would be more on point.
>
> I agree, I don't have strong opinion about this.
> It would be good to add condition for rejecting only indexes.
> Attached patches are,
>  - Change heap2 rmgr description
>  - Add condition to pg_visibility
>  - Fix typo in pgvisibility.sgml
> (Sorry for the late notice..)

OK, committed the first and last of those.  I think the other one
needs some work yet; the error message doesn't seem like it is quite
our usual style, and if we're going to do something here we should
probably also insert a check to throw a better error when there is no
relfilenode.

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