Re: CLUSTER and MVCC

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: CLUSTER and MVCC
Date: 2007-03-22 22:29:39
Message-ID: 28318.1174602579@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> So, can't this be improved to allow more aggressive vacuuming?

Not at that level. We do not keep track of the oldest still-used
snapshot in a transaction. I'm dubious that it'd be worth the
bookkeeping trouble to try --- often as not, the problem with a
"long running transaction" is that it's a long running statement,
anyway.

regards, tom lane

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