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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Little, Douglas <douglas.little@orbitz.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Forced quiesce
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:05:24 -0300
Message-ID: <1289228619-sup-7871@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8585BA53443004458E0BAA6134C5A7FB4773E160@EGEXCMB01.oww.root.lcl>
References: <8585BA53443004458E0BAA6134C5A7FB4773E160@EGEXCMB01.oww.root.lcl>

Excerpts from Little, Douglas's message of jue oct 28 09:39:19 -0300 2010:
> Hi,
> We're having to vacuum full the system tables everyday due to the number of  temp table drop/creates.

Seems to me that you're solving the wrong problem.  I think you should
be doing very frequent lazy vacuum (not full) of certain system catalogs
to prevent bloat.  That way you don't need the maintenance to be done
with exclusive locks.

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Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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