On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:57:27PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: - David Kerr <dmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: - > On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 03:49:57PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: - > - In recent versions of PG, no. Before about 8.3 it was a Really Bad Idea, - > - because the open transaction would prevent VACUUM from reclaiming storage. - - > We're on 8.3.9, so hopefully it's fairly safe then? - - Should be. You might want to test it just to make sure I'm recalling - correctly when that got fixed. Do a BEGIN in one session, then in - another session insert and delete some rows in a table, then VACUUM - VERBOSE and see if they get cleaned up. - - regards, tom lane - Ah yeah, good idea. I'll give it a shot. thanks! Dave -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
