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To: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] VACUUM Improvements - WIP Patch 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net> writes:
> I think everyone agrees that partial vacuums would be useful / *A Good 
> Thing* but it's the implementation that is the issue.

I'm not sure how important it will really be once we have support for
dead-space-map-driven vacuum.

			regards, tom lane