Re: why vacuum

Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>> i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that
>> 'I wouldnt commit mission critical data to a database that needs to be
>> vacuumed once a week'. So why does pg need vacuum?

> Oh man oh man. After reading the article, I realized he was saying that
> he wouldn't trust PostgreSQL to replace Oracle.

Well, that's a slightly more respectable point of view, but Oracle has
surely got its own set of gotchas ... doesn't it still have issues if
you run a transaction that's large enough to overrun the fixed-size
rollback areas (or whatever they call them)?

regards, tom lane