Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:19:25AM +0200, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 23:55, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > > BTW, there's a bug/issue with CLUSTER that makes it not entirely
> > > transaction safe.
> >
> > For God's sake, don't fix that one ! I rely on it... now seriously,
> > until there's a way to tell the DB that an exclusive lock is enough to
> > vacuum all dead rows, even if they would be visible by other
> > transactions, CLUSTER is the only thing I can use to circumvent the long
> > running transaction syndrome.
>
> I believe it's already fixed in HEAD/8.2.
If it is, TODO doesn't reflect that:
* Make CLUSTER preserve recently-dead tuples per MVCC
requirements
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