On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:43, Vivek Khera wrote:
> There's a big difference between "noticing that a table needs to be
> vacuumed and running it" and "automatically having the backend free a
> row as soon as we know it is eligible to be (as would normally be
> determined by vacuum)".
Agreed and it would be nice to have. But functionally it's *almost* the same..
> One of these days when I can afford a 14-hour dump/restore, I'll
> upgrade to 7.4 and try autovacuum :-)
FYi, it runs perfectly on 7.3.x IIRC from some posts earlier..So you don't
have to wait too long..
Shridhar