On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:09:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Nowadays, with many many new users, and no historical context, they do > > just take it for "a better kind of vacuum" when in fact it is really > > like reindex to indexes. I'd vote for rebuild [table]; as the new way > > to spell vacuum full; > > Well, no, "rebuild" is a pretty lousy description for it. I'd expect > "rebuild" to mean something like a no-op rewrite in ALTER TABLE. > > It is true that VACUUM FULL's use case has decreased nearly to the > vanishing point, and the maintenance effort for it is way out of > proportion to the use case. Maybe we should remove the code and make > VACUUM FULL do the table-rewrite thing. What do you mean with "the table-rewrite thing", exactly? Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
