On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:48:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Seems like there would
> be lots of situations where short exclusive-lock intervals could be
> tolerated, even though not long ones. So that's another argument
> for being able to set an upper bound on how many tuples get moved
> per call.
Presumably this couldn't easily be an upper bound on the time spent moving
tuples, rather than an upper bound on the number of tuples moved?
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