Re: When will vacuum go away?

BTW will there be a 7.1.4 release before 7.2 comes out so we can dump our databases to
upgrade to 7.2 w/o there being 60 in the seconds field?

Tom Lane wrote:

> "Michael Richards" <michael(at)fastmail(dot)ca> writes:
>
>>I've been watching for this for some time. First it was 7.0, then
>>7.1. Does anyone have any idea on when the row re-use code will be
>>ready?
>>
>
> VACUUM isn't disappearing any time soon, but 7.2's version of vacuum
> runs in parallel with normal transactions, so it's not so painful to
> run it frequently. See discussion in development docs,
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/maintenance.html
>
>
>>Given trouble with Great Bridge is there any info out there on when
>>7.2 might hit the streets?
>>
>
> The last several postponements of 7.2 beta have *not* been the fault
> of the ex-GreatBridge folks around here.
>
> You can find a snapshot that should be pretty durn close to 7.2beta1
> at ftp://ftp2.us.postgresql.org/pub/dev/postgresql-snapshot.tar.gz
> (note that at last word, other mirrors were not up to date --- if
> the doc/TODO file doesn't contain a date in October, it's stale).
> I think the only thing we're still waiting on is some datetime fixes
> from Tom Lockhart...
>
> regards, tom lane
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