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Subject: Re: Remove recommendation for nightly VACUUM
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:06:42 +0200
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On Mon, 2022-06-27 at 19:48 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:36 PM Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:32 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> > > > Looking at the Git history, most of that paragraph is from a time
> > > > when autovacuum did not yet exist or was much less reliable than it
> > > > is now.  So I suggest removing all that and pointing to autovacuum
> > > > instead, as done in the attached patch.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Agred. A nightly vacuum is definitely not something for "most people" anymore.
> > 
> > +1.
> > 
> > The VACUUM documentation needs to be totally overhauled. This is a start.
> 
> Agred, let's do partial improvement and not wait for a rewrite. Thus, applied! Thanks!

Thanks!

Laurenz Albe