On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 01:58:10AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
> >I'm getting more and more motivated to rewrite the vacuum docs. I think
> >a rewrite from the ground up might be best... I keep seeing people
> >doing vacuum full on this list and I'm thinking it's as much because of
> >the way the docs represent vacuum full as anything.
>
> I agree you shouldn't start thinking in terms of how to fix the existing
> documentation. I'd suggest instead writing a tutorial leading someone
> through what they need to know about their tables first and then going
> into how vacuum works based on that data.
Take a look at the stuff at http://decibel.org/~decibel/pervasive/, it'd
hopefully provide a useful starting point.
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