Re: Proposal "VACUUM SCHEMA"

On 12/22/14, 10:05 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>> While the feature itself might be fairly innocuous, I'm just wondering
>> >why we need to encourage manual vacuuming.  And why that, but not
>> >say schema-wide ANALYZE, CLUSTER, TRUNCATE, ...
> There's one argument for supporting more for VACUUM than the rest - it
> can't be executed directly as the result of a query as the others
> can... I wonder if that'd not better be answered by adding a feature to
> vacuumdb that allows selecting the to-be-vacuumed table by a user
> defined query.

I would MUCH rather that we find a way to special-case executing non-transactional commands dynamically, because VACUUM
isn'tthe only one that suffers from this problem.
 
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