On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I could have sworn I saw a post where you (Tom Lane) figured out how
> to get tables to be read-only while performing a vaccuum rather than
> being completely locked.
>
> Is this true? Is it in the -PATCHES branch?
the last change that I recall was by Bruce ... he got it so that it only
lock'd one table at a time and only held that lock for as long as was
required instead of for the duration of the vacuum ...