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| author | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2006-12-27 14:55:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> | 2006-12-27 14:55:17 +0000 |
| commit | 4f1e49119e61b7cc340df651d275c0a84b7df587 (patch) | |
| tree | 616c3c90b4e1b61c3d6ad4eda04334cb1a137318 /doc/src/sgml/ref | |
| parent | 0cbc5b1ed49ed744e856687b1d5e36d312327a34 (diff) | |
Use "dead" rather than "expired" for vacuumable rows.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src/sgml/ref')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml index 8ca884ccf3e..f72f36bf392 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml,v 1.44 2006/12/23 01:58:40 momjian Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml,v 1.45 2006/12/27 14:55:17 momjian Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ VACUUM [ FULL ] [ FREEZE ] [ VERBOSE ] ANALYZE [ <replaceable class="PARAMETER"> <title>Description</title> <para> - <command>VACUUM</command> reclaims storage occupied by expired tuples. + <command>VACUUM</command> reclaims storage occupied by dead tuples. In normal <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> operation, tuples that are deleted or obsoleted by an update are not physically removed from their table; they remain present until a <command>VACUUM</command> is @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ VACUUM [ FULL ] [ FREEZE ] [ VERBOSE ] ANALYZE [ <replaceable class="PARAMETER"> <para> We recommend that active production databases be vacuumed frequently (at least nightly), in order to - remove expired rows. After adding or deleting a large number + remove dead rows. After adding or deleting a large number of rows, it may be a good idea to issue a <command>VACUUM ANALYZE</command> command for the affected table. This will update the system catalogs with |