* Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> [010122 19:55] wrote:
>
> Vadim, did these patches ever make it into 7.1?
According to:
http://www.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/parser/gram.y?rev=2.217&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
nope. :(
>
> > We recently had a very satisfactory contract completed by
> > Vadim.
> >
> > Basically Vadim has been able to reduce the amount of time
> > taken by a vacuum from 10-15 minutes down to under 10 seconds.
> >
> > We've been running with these patches under heavy load for
> > about a week now without any problems except one:
> > don't 'lazy' (new option for vacuum) a table which has just
> > had an index created on it, or at least don't expect it to
> > take any less time than a normal vacuum would.
> >
> > There's three patchsets and they are available at:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/vacfix/
> >
> > complete diff:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/vacfix/v.diff
> >
> > only lazy vacuum option to speed up index vacuums:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/vacfix/vlazy.tgz
> >
> > only lazy vacuum option to only scan from start of modified
> > data:
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/vacfix/mnmb.tgz
> >
> > Although the patches are for 7.0.x I'm hoping that they
> > can be forward ported (if Vadim hasn't done it already)
> > to 7.1.
> >
> > enjoy!
> >
> > --
> > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
> > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."
> >
>
>
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