Re: Performance (was: The New Slashdot Setup (includes MySql server))

Matthias Urlichs wrote:

> Another attitude of the PostgreSQL developers might be to answer "run
> VACUUM" whenever somebody reports performance problems. That answer is
> not helpful at all WRT this benchmark, because the user who caused the
> problem ("test", in my case) isn't permitted to run VACUUM on the
> pg_index table.

Speaking of which, why can't any user who can change meta-data, also
Vacuum meta-data ? It's not a threat to security is it?