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From Kenneth Gonsalves
Subject why vacuum
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Msg-id 200510261015.17623.lawgon@thenilgiris.com
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Responses Re: why vacuum  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: why vacuum  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
Re: why vacuum  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
Re: why vacuum  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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hi,
i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that
'I wouldnt commit mission critical data to a database that needs to be
vacuumed once a week'. So why does pg need vacuum?
--
regards
kg

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