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From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: VACUUM ANALYZE blocking both reads and writes to a table
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 17:26:35 +0200
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> > (2) If it's autovacuum we're talking about, it will get kicked off the
> > table if anyone else comes along and wants a conflicting lock.
> 
> Not on 8.2 though.

That is also nice to know. One more reason to upgrade to 8.3.

Thank you very much, both Alvaro and Tom, for the very insightful
discussion!

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