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  1. Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux]

    Richard Lynch <lynch@lscorp.com> — 1998-07-24T18:18:12Z

    At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:

>        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
>Oracle *doesn't* have, right?

Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.

<NAIVE>
Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
</NAIVE>

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  2. Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux]

    Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> — 1998-07-24T18:27:50Z

    On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Lynch wrote:

> At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:
> 
> >        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
> >Oracle *doesn't* have, right?
> 
> Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.
> 
> <NAIVE>
> Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
> and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
> </NAIVE>

That's actually a good thought.  Once we have it so that table-space is
re-usable (ie. fill in the blanks), then going one step further and having
something similar to that to 'vacuum' out fragmentation would be most
cool...

  3. Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux]

    Statistical Solutions <statsol@statsol.com> — 1998-07-24T18:41:43Z

    On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Lynch wrote:
> At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:
> >        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
> >Oracle *doesn't* have, right?
> Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.
> <NAIVE>
> Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
> and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
> </NAIVE>

uh...isn't that what cron is for????

steve
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