Re: vacuum and 24/7 uptime

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Martín Marqués <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar>
Cc: Ryan Mahoney <ryan(at)paymentalliance(dot)net>, Mark <mark(at)ldssingles(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: vacuum and 24/7 uptime
Date: 2001-07-11 23:49:06
Message-ID: 200107112349.f6BNn6t06670@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Mi? 11 Jul 2001 13:46, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
> > Hi Mark, This is being worked on now. I believe the 7.2 release will have
> > enable you to run a vacuum with no downtime.
>
> AFAIK, if UNDO is implemented, no vacuum will be needed to free space.
>
> It would be great if UNDO would clean indexes.

UNDO is for rolling back aborted transactions. I have not heard it used
to eliminate vacuum.

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