comment, so here is the comment for the other patch *grin*

> > You are right.  I checked the gramar and saw the ability to use the
> > parameter.  I looked at the manual pages, and saw no reference to it.  I
> > tried running it, and found vacuum does nothing when you give it a table
> > name.
> >
> > I checked a debug version of postgres, and the table name is passed to
> > vacuum() in the variable (char *vacrel).  The problem is that the vacuum
> > spans transactions, and the vacrel name gets changed to '<vacuum>',
> > which is the name of the portal that gets created in
> > vacuum.c::_vc_vacuum().  vacuum.c::_vc_init() does a
> > CommitTransactionCommand() which frees the memory allocated to vacrel.
> >
> > Should I change vacuum.c to copy the relation name to a local string
> > variable of vacuum(), or do you recommend we allocate the table name in
> > a different fashion?  You are the man who knows the most about this.
>
> static NameData VacRel;

Done.  Attached is the patch.  I have already applied it to the 2.0
tree. (Marc!)

I tested it and it works.  I also applied documentation patches to go
with it.

So now vacuum can be run for only one table if you wish.

Submitted by: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>