> I've started to wonder why bother with this bloated beast at all. We are
> just now moving to an RDBMS and so its the perfect time to switch (Oracle
> doesn't cost us a cent so no money lost). Problem is, I'd rather not go
> back to 6.4.2. I'm thinking move the Oracle stuff to CVS postgresql and
> just dealing with the problems if any come up. I'd hope that would
> provide you guys with additional feedback and thus possibly help improve
> the code base prior to 6.5.
>
> So, are there any show stoppers in CVS postgresql. I myself haven't hit
> anything, but I'm not really pounding on it yet.
The only thing I know of is that the new MVCC code doesn't vacuum
properly yet. It does vacuum, I just suspect is does not know how to
prevent vacuuming of rows that are being viewed by other backends.
Perhaps Vadim can comment on that.
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