On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 05:34:28PM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Schönig wrote:

> The reason why I came up with this posting is slightly different: Assume 
> a JDBC application which works with PostgreSQL + some other database. If 
> you want to use both databases without PostgreSQL being unnecessarily 
> slow an implicit mechanism would be better. Because otherwise you will 
> have an SQL command in there which is off standard - putting a switch 
> into the application seems to be a fairly ugly solution.

That's why you delegate the job to something else, like pg_autovacuum or
cron ...

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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de un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real se halla siempre
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