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From: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: shlam@ie.cuhk.hk
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Subject: Re: how to clean up pg_log, pg_time and pg_variable? 
Reply-To: aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 06 Jun 94 18:14:43 +0800 
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shlam@ie.cuhk.hk writes:
> >what pg_log and pg_time store are the commit status and commit time of
> >each transaction.  in theory, this could be compressed by something
> >like run-length encoding (since most transactions commit) or truncated
> >after vacuuming (if you could somehow arrange to vacuum the entire
> >installation..).  in fact, they just grow.
> Is there any tools to compress this files or expire some of
> the information in these log files?

sorry for being long-winded :-)  no.
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