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

Chris <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>

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From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
To: Taral <taral@taral.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Chris <chris@bitmead.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-sql@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-02-03T23:27:37Z
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Taral wrote:
> 
> 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?

It could produce wrong results to queries if the data is wrong.