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From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] VACUUM Improvements - WIP Patch
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "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.

Is that something we can expect any time soon? I haven't heard much 
about it really happening for 8.4.