Hi, Alvaro,

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

>>> I am aware that more recent versions > 8.x have fixed this problem, I
>>> checked the 7.4 release notes but can't see if any of the fixes made it
>>> into 7.4.
>> Usually, only critical data loss and security fixes are put into the
>> minor updates (e. G. 7.4.0 to 7.4.13). So, if it's not in the release
>> notes, it is unlikely that it dit make it into the 7.4 releases.
> Except it was solved in 7.4:
> 
> Allow B-tree index compaction and empty page reuse (Tom)

Yes, you're right, the change is listed on
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/release-7-4.html

So, as it _is_ in the release notes, this does not render my statement
wrong, but pointless :-)

Thanks for your correction,
Markus
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