Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Shelby Cain
Subject Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE
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Msg-id 20060524002914.43475.qmail@web37205.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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----- Original Message ----
>From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
>To: Shelby Cain <alyandon@yahoo.com>
>Cc: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>; SCassidy@overlandstorage.com; Postgres >general mailing list
<pgsql-general@postgresql.org>;pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:19:58 PM
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] allow LIMIT in UPDATE and DELETE
>
 >The issue is that vacuum has to base it's decisions not on the oldest
>running transaction that has locks on a table, but on the oldest running
>transaction in the entire database, because that transaction could start
>reading any table at any time. Until that changes, long-running
>transactions of any kind and heavy-update tables simply won't mix well
>at all in a single database.

Now I understand... thanks for the clarification.

 Regards,

 Shelby Cain




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