Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL

From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Taral <taral(at)taral(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chris <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL
Date: 2000-02-03 23:27:37
Message-ID: 389A0EE9.3BA060D9@nimrod.itg.telecom.com.au
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Taral wrote:
>
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Maintaining an accurate count of descendants (or indexes for that
> > matter) would be expensive; in particular, it'd create severe
> > concurrency problems.
>
> What about fixing these things on VACUUM then?

It could produce wrong results to queries if the data is wrong.

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