Re: Vacuum and Transactions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum and Transactions
Date: 2001-07-06 18:45:46
Message-ID: 17754.994445146@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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

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