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Re: What needs to be done for real Partitioning?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: PFC <lists@boutiquenumerique.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-03-22T13:10:00Z
Lists: pgsql-performance 
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:26:24PM +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On P, 2005-03-20 at 00:52 +0100, PFC wrote:

> > 	Also note the possibility to mark a partition READ ONLY. Or even a table.

> Would we still need regular VACUUMing of read-only table to avoid 
> OID-wraparound ?

You could VACUUM FREEZE the table or partition, so you wouldn't need to
vacuum it again.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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