"Craig A. James" <cjames@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is there no real-time garbage collection at all in Postgres? No. > And if so, is this because nobody has had time to implement garbage > collection, or for a more fundamental reason, or because VACUUM is > seen as sufficient? If you really want to know, read the mountains of (mostly) junk that have been written about replacing VACUUM in pgsql-hackers. The short answer (with apologies to Winston Churchill) is that VACUUM is the worst solution, except for all the others that have been suggested. regards, tom lane
