Any thoughts as to when 7.2 is targeted for release?
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: "Mark" <mark@ldssingles.com>
Cc: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] vacuum and 24/7 uptime
> >
> > Is Postgresql ready for 24/7 uptime? Our tests have shown that vacuumdb
> > requires downtime, and if one does this nightly as suggested, well, one
has
> > downtime, 40+ minutes in our case.
> >
> > My company wants to replace MS SQL Server with PostgreSQL, but we can't
> > afford downtime to do database maintenance. Is it possible that we are
doing
> > something wrong?
> >
> > What are the plans for future versions of pgsql? Will vacuum be
optomized or
> > otherwise enhanced to execute more quickly and/or not lock tables?
>
> We hope to eliminate that downtime in 7.2.
>
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