Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: SGVLLUG Oracle and Informix on Linux]

[The Hermit Hacker]

On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Richard Lynch wrote:

> At 8:28 AM 7/24/98, Marc Fournier wrote:
> 
> >        So, essentially, our VACUUM command provides functionality that
> >Oracle *doesn't* have, right?
> 
> Yes, but yours doesn't run automatically.
> 
> <NAIVE>
> Ideally, when one created a database, one could specify vacuum frequency
> and/or time slot, and PostgreSQL would just do it...
> </NAIVE>

That's actually a good thought.  Once we have it so that table-space is
re-usable (ie. fill in the blanks), then going one step further and having
something similar to that to 'vacuum' out fragmentation would be most
cool...