Neil Conway wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Utterly wrong. When you commit you will physically drop the old table. > > If there is a SELECT running against the old table it will be quite > > unhappy after that. > > How can we drop the file at commit, given that a serializable > transaction's snapshot should still be able to see old relfilenode's > content?
Vacuum will not remove any old rows because of the transaction xid so why does it care if the table is clustered/reindexed? It doesn't have the table open yet. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]