Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >> i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that >> 'I wouldnt commit mission critical data to a database that needs to be >> vacuumed once a week'. So why does pg need vacuum?
> Oh man oh man. After reading the article, I realized he was saying that > he wouldn't trust PostgreSQL to replace Oracle. Well, that's a slightly more respectable point of view, but Oracle has surely got its own set of gotchas ... doesn't it still have issues if you run a transaction that's large enough to overrun the fixed-size rollback areas (or whatever they call them)? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq