User-invoked mergeout

You can invoke mergeout at any time on one or more projections, by calling Vertica meta-function DO_TM_TASK:

DO_TM_TASK('mergeout'[, '[[database.]schema.]{table | projection} ]')

The function scans the database catalog within the specified scope to identify outstanding mergeout tasks. If no table or projection is specified, DO_TM_TASK scans the entire catalog. Unlike the continuous TM service, which runs in the TM resource pool, DO_TM_TASK runs in the GENERAL pool. If DO_TM_TASK executes mergeout tasks that are pending in the merge request queue, the TM service removes these tasks from the queue with no action taken.