Re: Proposed patch: Smooth replication during VACUUM FULL

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Gabriele Bartolini
<gabriele.bartolini@2ndquadrant.it> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have noticed that during VACUUM FULL on reasonably big tables, replication
> lag climbs. In order to smooth down the replication lag, I propose the
> attached patch which enables vacuum delay for VACUUM FULL.
>

AFAICS, the problem is that those operations involve the rebuild of
tables, so we can't simply stop in the middle and wait because we will
need to hold a strong lock more time... also the patch seems to be
only doing something for CLUSTER and not for VACUUM FULL.
or am i missing something?

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