Re: (WIP) VACUUM REWRITE - CLUSTER by ctid

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> wrote:

> I got the impression that replacing VACUUM FULL is the most popular
> opinion. I like VACUUM REWRITE myself, except that it would require
> making REWRITE a reserved keyword.

My next proposal for the syntex is "VACUUM (options) table_name".
Since "options" are quoted by '(' and ')', we can add new options
without adding them into reserved keywords.

The traditional vacuum syntax:   VACUUM FULL FREEZE VERBOSE ANALYZE table_name (columns);
will be:   VACUUM (FULL, FREEZE, VERBOSE, ANALYZE) table_name (columns);

I think the syntax is consistent with existing syntex of "EXPLAIN (...)".
We can choose any keyword for the new "rewrite" version.
For example:   * VACUUM ( REWRITE )   * VACUUM ( FULL [ INPLACE | REPLACE ] )

Regards,
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ITAGAKI Takahiro
NTT Open Source Software Center