Re: Proposal "VACUUM SCHEMA"

On 12/21/14, 8:55 PM, Fabrízio de Royes Mello wrote:
> > And why that, but not
> > say schema-wide ANALYZE, CLUSTER, TRUNCATE, ...
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> +1. I can write patches for each of this maintenance statement too.
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> If we're going to go that route, then perhaps it would make more sense to create a command that allows you to apply a second command to every object in a schema. We would have to be careful about PreventTransactionChain commands.
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> Sorry but I don't understand what you meant. Can you explain more about your idea?

There's a very large number of commands that could be useful to execute on every object in a schema. (RE)INDEX, CLUSTER, ALTER come to mind besides VACUUM.

Right now a lot of people just work around this with things like DO blocks, but as mentioned elsewhere in the thread that fails for commands that can't be in a transaction.
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