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From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Enhancement request
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 02:26:17 -0500
Message-ID: <20071203072617.GF18421@crankycanuck.ca> (raw)
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:00:05PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Yes autovacuum is great for general low use scenarios. Throw it at a
> database doing hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of transactions
> an hour that has relations that in the multiple hundred gig range and
> autovacuum is useless for a good portion of that database.

This isn't a good argument for adding new knobs, though.  It's an argument
for using the limited resources to make autovacuum better.

Compare with the never-ending arguments for index hints. 

A





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