Re: Feedback on getting rid of VACUUM FULL

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feedback on getting rid of VACUUM FULL
Date: 2009-09-16 23:34:03
Message-ID: 4AB175EB.8030206@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Robert Haas wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 21:23 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> 2) Another utility that does something like UPDATE ... WHERE ctid > ? to
> I also wonder whether we should consider teaching regular VACUUM to do
> a little of this every time it's run. Right now, once your table gets

Having it be built into VACUUM would surprise me a bit, but I wonder
if autovacuum could detect when such a tuple-mover would be useful,
and run one before it does a VACUUM if needed.

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