From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Broers <mbroers@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] after 9.2.4 patch vacuumdb -avz not analyzing all tables
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:32:07 -0400
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Jeff Janes <jeff.janes@gmail.com> writes:
> I believe the rationale was so that an autovacuum would still look like it
> was needed, and get fired again the next naptime, so that it could continue
> with the truncation attempts. (Rather than waiting for 20% turnover in the
> table before trying again). I'm not convinced by this argument. If the
> DBA is desperate to get the space back, they can go do vacuum full.
Well, that's why I think the lock abandonment shouldn't apply to manual
plain vacuum. You shouldn't need to do a vacuum full for that; that'd
be a huge increase in the cost, not to mention that it'd transiently
require twice the disk space, hardly a good thing if you're short.
regards, tom lane
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