Re: New VACUUM FULL

Itagaki Takahiro wrote:
> Here is a patch to support "rewrite" version of VACUUM FULL.
> It was called "VACUUM REWRITE" in the past disucussin,
> but I choose the following syntax for now:
> 
>     VACUUM ( FULL [ INPLACE | REPLACE ] )  [ table_name ]
> 
> The reason is to contrast the new REPLACE behavior with the old INPLACE
> behavior. I cannot find any good terms of opposite meaning of REWRITE.

I thought the idea is to rip out the current implementation altogether.
If that's the case, then it doesn't make sense to use a different
syntax.  Just rip the innards of VACUUM FULL and replace them with your
new implementation.

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