"Craig A. James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there no real-time garbage collection at all in Postgres?
No. > And if so, is this because nobody has had time to implement garbage > collection, or for a more fundamental reason, or because VACUUM is > seen as sufficient? If you really want to know, read the mountains of (mostly) junk that have been written about replacing VACUUM in pgsql-hackers. The short answer (with apologies to Winston Churchill) is that VACUUM is the worst solution, except for all the others that have been suggested. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly