Re: Revitalising VACUUM FULL for 8.3 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Revitalising VACUUM FULL for 8.3
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Msg-id 1172756505.3760.1270.camel@silverbirch.site
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In response to Re: Revitalising VACUUM FULL for 8.3  ("Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>)
Responses Re: Revitalising VACUUM FULL for 8.3
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On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:35 +0100, Zeugswetter Andreas ADI SD wrote:
> >         -- start the VACUUM from the first non-filled block
> > 
> > So if we do this, we wouldn't need to worry about HOT tuples 
> > at all, nor would we need to wait until all transactions are gone.
> 
> You need to wait until you are allowed to truncate if you want
> concurrency.
> Or a concurrent scan might miss a row, because the visible tuple got
> truncated away.

I was not suggesting that we remove visible rows through truncation.

--  Simon Riggs              EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com




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