Re: Press Release

First of all, be aware that we have already collected half the translations

>for the press kit. So at this point, we can only cut paragraphs and not
>edit. These comments would have been more timely a month ago ....
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If only I had a nickel :)

>>I believe is false. As long as you have to vacuum the above is not true.
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>How? Vacuuming does not require the database to be offline. Vacuum full
>does, but that can be eliminated with proper tuning.
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No but vacuum will cause your machine to grind to a crawl. Try telling a
customer
that is pushing 240,000 transactions an hour, 24 hours a day to run a
Vacuum.
They are not pleased.

Don't get me wrong. I want to promote as much as the next guy but that
paragraph
is pretty strong.

>And the whole point of the FSM feature is that most databases, with proper
>tuning, should not require any maintainence which needs exclusive locking.
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>If anybody has evidence that the FSM index management doens't work, then we'll
>cut the paragraph. However, I'm inclined to trust Tom & Co., and my only
>simple tests seemed to uphold the Lazy-Vacuum-ability of indexes.
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I could have sworn that Tom said that it might not be fixed. Was that
ever investigated?

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