| From: | Rui DeSousa <rui(dot)desousa(at)icloud(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Request for feature: VACUUM FULL updates pg_stat_all_tables.last_vacuum |
| Date: | 2024-05-09 20:45:41 |
| Message-ID: | D8F01496-4E99-4EFE-B974-41861E3A0F69@icloud.com |
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> On May 9, 2024, at 4:39 PM, Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 4:11 PM Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at <mailto:laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>> wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-05-09 at 09:58 -0400, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Because vacuum is vacuum.
>
> The problem is that the two commands do something different, so it
> would be misleading. Renaming VACUUM (FULL) is a good idea in principle,
> but I think that is more than 10 years too late. The compatibility
> break would be too painful.
>
> Make VACUUM (FULL) a synonym for RECREATE TABLE, then say in the docs that VACUUM (FULL) is deprecated.
>
I think if you rename vacuum full then vacuum compact would be better fit than recreate table.
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