Re: Vacuum and Transactions

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> In 7.2, VACUUM will not require an exclusive lock.
>
> > Care to elaborate on that?  How are you going to do it?
>
> Uh, have you not been paying attention to pg-hackers for the
> last two months?
>
> I am assuming here that concurrent VACUUM will become the default
> kind of vacuum, and the old style will be invoked by some other
> syntax (VACUUM FULL ..., maybe).

By concurrent vacuum, do you mean the auto-vacuum you are doing?  I
realize that will not need a lock.  Are you changing default VACUUM so
it only moves rows inside existing blocks too?

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