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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> I'm not sure if we need to expose all these new maintenance actions as
> SQL commands.

I strongly think we should, if only for diagnostic purposes. Also to
adapt to some well defined workloads that the automatic system is not
designed to handle.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr     PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support


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