Re: [HACKERS] Plans for solving the VACUUM problem

[Tom Lane]

Hiroshi Inoue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I guess that is the question.  Are we heading for an overwriting storage
>> manager?

> I've never heard that it was given up. So there seems to be
> at least a possibility to introduce it in the future.

Unless we want to abandon MVCC (which I don't), I think an overwriting
smgr is impractical.  We need a more complex space-reuse scheme than
that.

                        regards, tom lane

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