Re: Last chance to object to MVCC-safe CLUSTER

Tom Lane wrote:
> Awhile back Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> wrote:
> > Making cluster MVCC-safe will kill my back-door of clustering a hot
> > table while I run a full DB backup.
>
> Are we agreed that the TRUNCATE-based workaround shown here
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-03/msg00606.php
> is an adequate response to this objection?
>
> (This assumes of course that TRUNCATE will never become MVCC-safe,
> but I think that's a reasonable thing to assume. I notice we don't
> document TRUNCATE as unsafe ... will go fix that.)

Yes, I agree on all points.

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