Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DEF164FD83 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:47:32 -0400 (AST) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 88872-04 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:47:29 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18E0064FD3B for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:47:28 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mBHElNi0028511; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:47:23 -0500 (EST) To: "John Lister" cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: controlling autovacuum during the day. In-reply-to: <742A9D77A1BA4171AF52BBBF6F5F2C75@squarepi.com> References: <2BB7361E57C4417A975C0474610BA4C3@squarepi.com> <27759.1229521625@sss.pgh.pa.us> <742A9D77A1BA4171AF52BBBF6F5F2C75@squarepi.com> Comments: In-reply-to "John Lister" message dated "Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:28:07 +0000" Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: <28510.1229525243@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200812/125 X-Sequence-Number: 30958 "John Lister" writes: > Cheers for the quick reply. I've tweaked them quite a bit, but we have quite > a few heavily updated tables that i'd like vacuuming to keep them in check. > Unfortunately the autovacuum does a FULL vacuum every so often locking the > tables for quite a long time, i'd like to move these to the evening if > possible. Huh? Autovacuum *never* does VACUUM FULL. regards, tom lane