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>) "En las profundidades de nuestro inconsciente hay una obsesiva necesidad de un universo lógico y coherente. Pero el universo real se halla siempre un paso más allá de la lógica" (Irulan) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html