Tom Lane wrote:
>
> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:
> > ... people looked at me like I had two heads when I told them about
> > "vacuum." It wasn't obvious to them what it did.
>
> I won't dispute that, but changing a command name that's been around for
> ten or fifteen years strikes me as a recipe for more confusion, not
> less.
>
> > However, saying that VACUUM NOLOCK and VACUUM LOCK do "more-or-less
> > the same thing" really isn't so. Think about it, the VACUUM LOCK,
> > practically rebuilds a tables representation,
>
> It does no such thing.
Just out of curiosity - does CLUSTER currently "practically rebuild
a tables representation" ?
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Hannu