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From: Jeff Frost <[email protected]>
To: Scott Marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: vacuum and routine maintenance docs
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:28:51 -0800 (PST)
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> Well, I'm kind of tempted to rewrite the whole section.  I'd like to
> come up with some objectives of what we're trying to cover there, and
> basically start over with all the information that's there plus the
> other stuff on fsm and mvcc as it applies to vacuum, or link to it as
> needed.

A couple questions I find difficult to answer using the online docs are:

* Is my autovacuum doing a good enough job?
* What percentage of bloat is reasonable (and how can I tell what my bloat
level is)?
* What transaction loads would require specific autovacuum settings, or manual 
vacuum fulls?


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