Re: BUG #5722: vacuum full does not update last_vacuum statistics

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Perhaps.  The new implementation of VACUUM FULL is really more like a
> CLUSTER, or one of the rewriting variants of ALTER TABLE.  Should all
> of those operations result in an update of last_vacuum?  From an
> implementation standpoint it's difficult to say that only some of them
> should, because all of them result in a table that has no immediate
> need for vacuuming.  The only argument I can see for having only VACUUM
> FULL update the timestamp is that it's called VACUUM and the others
> aren't.  Which is an argument, but not a terribly impressive one IMO.

Perhaps we should have another field last_table_rewrite or something?

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greg