Re: please explain vacuum with WAL

From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Dmitry Melekhov *EXTERN*" <dm(at)belkam(dot)com>, "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: please explain vacuum with WAL
Date: 2008-07-08 12:15:31
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Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
> So, if I have database backup and WAL generated after this backup, I can
> do recovery, this mean WAL already contains all changes to database,
> without vacuum. Could you tell me what is wrong in my sentence?

VACUUM *is* a change to the database.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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