Re: Vacuum questions...

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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