Re: Vacuum and Transactions - Mailing list pgsql-general

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> In 7.2, VACUUM will not require an exclusive lock.

> Care to elaborate on that?  How are you going to do it?

Uh, have you not been paying attention to pg-hackers for the
last two months?

I am assuming here that concurrent VACUUM will become the default
kind of vacuum, and the old style will be invoked by some other
syntax (VACUUM FULL ..., maybe).

            regards, tom lane