Re: [HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-26 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 6/26/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it really nessisary make personal comments like this? Lets discuss "ideas" not personalities or people. Chill dude :) All I was saying is that if you look at past threads, this is a heavily discussed and near-religious topic. Doing some

Re: [HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-26 Thread A.M.
On Mon, June 26, 2006 9:37 am, Mark Woodward wrote: >> On 6/24/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I originally suggested a methodology for preserving MVCC and everyone >>> is confusing it as update "in place," this isnot what I intended. >> >> Actually, you should've presented your

Re: [HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Woodward
> On 6/24/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I originally suggested a methodology for preserving MVCC and everyone is >> confusing it as update "in place," this isnot what I intended. > > Actually, you should've presented your idea as performing MVCC the way > Firebird does... the idea

Re: [HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-26 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 05:29, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Mark Woodward wrote: > > I originally suggested a methodology for preserving MVCC and everyone is > > confusing it as update "in place," this isnot what I intended. > > It doesn't make sense, but maybe vacuuming a page would. Naturally, it > wo

Re: [HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-25 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 6/24/06, Mark Woodward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I originally suggested a methodology for preserving MVCC and everyone is confusing it as update "in place," this isnot what I intended. Actually, you should've presented your idea as performing MVCC the way Firebird does... the idea is basica

Re: [HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Mark Woodward wrote: > I originally suggested a methodology for preserving MVCC and everyone is > confusing it as update "in place," this isnot what I intended. It doesn't make sense, but maybe vacuuming a page would. Naturally, it would need to wholly scan all the indexes to clean'em up, so it's

[HACKERS] vacuum row?

2006-06-24 Thread Mark Woodward
I originally suggested a methodology for preserving MVCC and everyone is confusing it as update "in place," this isnot what I intended. How about a form of vacuum that targets a particular row? Is this possible? Would if have to be by transaction? ---(end of broadcast)