Re: why vacuum - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: why vacuum
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Msg-id 6952.1130343176@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: why vacuum  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
Responses Re: why vacuum  (Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>)
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Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>> 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?

> Oh man oh man.  After reading the article, I realized he was saying that
> he wouldn't trust PostgreSQL to replace Oracle.

Well, that's a slightly more respectable point of view, but Oracle has
surely got its own set of gotchas ... doesn't it still have issues if
you run a transaction that's large enough to overrun the fixed-size
rollback areas (or whatever they call them)?
        regards, tom lane


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