Re: 7.3.4 on Linux: UPDATE .. foo=foo+1 degrades massivly

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Guy Fraser <guy(at)incentre(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 7.3.4 on Linux: UPDATE .. foo=foo+1 degrades massivly
Date: 2004-04-27 01:48:44
Message-ID: 20040427014844.GD2206@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:58:57PM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:

> I realize that one you vacuum you can no longer time travel to before the
> vacuum. Although I never tried to use it, I thought time travel was a
> feature in PostGreSQL.

I've heard that the Berkeley code had the time travel functionality, but
apparently it was removed in very early PostgreSQL days, or maybe even
before that.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)

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