RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "'Zeugswetter Andreas SB'" <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
Date: 2001-05-23 08:58:58
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20010523185858.00c24290@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 14:33 22/05/01 -0700, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
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>If community will not like UNDO then I'll probably try to implement
>dead space collector which will read log files and so on.

I'd vote for UNDO; in terms of usability & friendliness it's a big win.
Tom's plans for FSM etc are, at least, going to get us some useful data,
and at best will mean we can hang of WAL based FSM for a few versions.

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