On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Agreed. Perhaps to solve this issue what we need is a way to migrate
> tuples from later pages into earlier ones. (This was one of the points,
> never resolved, that we discussed during the VACUUM FULL rework.)
Yeah, I agree. And frankly, we need to find a way to make it work
without taking AccessExclusiveLock on the relation. Having to run
VACUUM FULL is killing actual users and scaring off potential ones.
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