RE: [HACKERS] 6.6 items

What about potential deadlocking issues with vacuum? Haven't tried to
deadlock vacuum, but wondering if it's possible.
-DEJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Momjian [SMTP:maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 11:41 AM
> To: Thomas Lockhart
> Cc: Vadim Mikheev; Don Baccus; ZEUGSWETTER Andreas IZ5;
> pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org; 'kar(at)webline(dot)dk'
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.6 items
>
> > > Or you talk that this should be mentioned in
> > > announcement/release notes?
> >
> > I've added a mention of this in the release notes, and (Bruce) since
> > I'll be regenerating INSTALL and HISTORY it will be included in those.
> > I *should* be able to retrofit it into admin.ps.gz also...
>
> Added to release notes:
>
> Another big benefit of MVCC is that
> <application>pg_dump</application>
> can now generate consistent backups of live, active databases,
> without
> blocking active transactions.
>
> Good idea to add this. I also added to the Enhancements list:
>
> pg_dump now can generate consistent snapshots on active databases(Vadim)
>
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