On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:
> The reason why I came up with this posting is slightly different: Assume
> a JDBC application which works with PostgreSQL + some other database. If
> you want to use both databases without PostgreSQL being unnecessarily
> slow an implicit mechanism would be better. Because otherwise you will
> have an SQL command in there which is off standard - putting a switch
> into the application seems to be a fairly ugly solution.
That's why you delegate the job to something else, like pg_autovacuum or
cron ...
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