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Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> I assume there is no TODO here.
> 
> Well, there doesn't seem to be a TODO for partial/restartable vacuums,
> which were mentioned upthread.  This is a really desirable feature for
> big databases and removes one of the reasons to partition large
> tables.

I would agree that partial vacuums would be very useful.

Joshua D. Drake

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> merlin
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