Thread: Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux]

At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:

>        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
>Oracle *doesn't* have, right?

Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.

<NAIVE>
Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
</NAIVE>

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-- "TANSTAAFL" Rich lynch@lscorp.com

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Lynch wrote:

> At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:
>
> >        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
> >Oracle *doesn't* have, right?
>
> Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.
>
> <NAIVE>
> Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
> and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
> </NAIVE>

That's actually a good thought.  Once we have it so that table-space is
re-usable (ie. fill in the blanks), then going one step further and having
something similar to that to 'vacuum' out fragmentation would be most
cool...

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Lynch wrote:
> At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:
> >        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
> >Oracle *doesn't* have, right?
> Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.
> <NAIVE>
> Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
> and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
> </NAIVE>

uh...isn't that what cron is for????

steve
TISATAAFL