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Re: Vacuum questions...


  • From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
  • To: "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
  • Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Vacuum questions...
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:47:46 -0400
  • Message-id: <433993D2(dot)2050408(at)Yahoo(dot)com>

On 9/24/2005 8:17 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

Would it be difficult to vacuum as part of a dump? The reasoning behind
this is that you have to read the table to do the dump anyway,

I think aside from what's been said so far, it would be rather difficult anyway. pg_dump relies on MVCC and requires to run in one transaction to see a consistent snapshot while vacuum jiggles around with transactions in some rather non-standard way.


Jan

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