Re: vacuum, performance, and MVCC

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 07:01:38PM +0200, Lukas Smith wrote:
> Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> 
> >make the session handler smarter? And if you can't do that, put
> >some logic in the session table that turns an update without
> >changes into a no-op?
> 
> err isnt that one the job of the database?

By no means.  Even if there were zero overhead for this, which there
couldn't be, you'd have a real problem auditing attempted actions.
This would be a very big problem when trying to track down a rogue app
and/or a denial of service attack.

Cheers,
D
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