On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> The benefit of saying that only UPDATEs clean the block is that this
> penalises only the workload making the mess, rather than everybody
> cleaning up repeatedly over one messy guy.
Right, but there are plenty of situations where having everybody clean
up after the messy guy is better than waiting around and hoping that
Mom (aka vacuum) will do it.
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