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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Taral <taral@taral.net>
Cc: Chris <chris@bitmead.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-02-03T17:32:39Z
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Taral <taral@taral.net> writes:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maintaining an accurate count of descendants (or indexes for that
>> matter) would be expensive; in particular, it'd create severe
>> concurrency problems.

> What about fixing these things on VACUUM then?

Could probably do that ... not sure if it's worth the trouble ...

			regards, tom lane