Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> In 7.2, VACUUM will not require an exclusive lock.
> Care to elaborate on that? How are you going to do it?
Uh, have you not been paying attention to pg-hackers for the
last two months?
I am assuming here that concurrent VACUUM will become the default
kind of vacuum, and the old style will be invoked by some other
syntax (VACUUM FULL ..., maybe).
regards, tom lane