Re: vacuumdb --freeze

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: vacuumdb --freeze
Date: 2009-02-19 13:08:03
Message-ID: 200902191308.n1JD84V00112@momjian.us
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> The FREEZ option is deprecated. See
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-vacuum.html

I mentioned PGOPTIONS as a suggestion when I posted but on one said that
was a good idea; they just wanted to know why I needed this
functionality.

> you should use vacuum_freeze_min_age instead. On other side it breaks
> vacuumdb backward compatibility which we did not declare, but it could
> be fine.

How does adding a flag break backward compatibiity?

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