Re: Release Notes: Major Changes in 8.2 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Release Notes: Major Changes in 8.2
Date
Msg-id 20060920171028.GA5434@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Release Notes: Major Changes in 8.2  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:22 +0200, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> > Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > Zero administration overhead now possible (Alvaro)
> > >
> > >     With autovacuum enabled, all required vacuuming will now take place
> > > without administrator intervention enabling wider distribution of
> > > embedded databases.
> > >   
> > This was true for 8.1 already, no?
> 
> Hmmm. You're correct.
> 
> Perhaps that is not a major change after all.

What happened in 8.2 is that you no longer need database-wide vacuums,
ever (except for template databases).  Not sure if that qualifies as a
major change or not.

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