From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: Steven Flatt <steven.flatt@gmail.com>
Cc: Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database-wide VACUUM ANALYZE
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:07:32 -0400
Message-ID: <20070621160732.58497e2b.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> (raw)
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In response to "Steven Flatt" <steven.flatt@gmail.com>:
> On 6/21/07, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote:
> >
> > Are you on FreeBSD by any chance?
> >
> > I think the FreeBSD port by default installs a script that does a daily
> > vacuum.
>
>
> Yes, FreeBSD. Do you know what script that is?
/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/502.pgsql
> And it does a db-wide
> VACUUM ANALYZE every day?! That is certainly not necessary, and in fact,
> costly for us.
You can control it with knobs in /etc/periodic.conf (just like other
periodic job):
daily_pgsql_vacuum_enable="YES"
daily_pgsql_backup_enable="NO"
are the defaults.
> Hmmm... I wonder why this would just start now, three days ago. Everything
> seemed to be normal for the last two weeks.
Someone alter /etc/periodic.conf? Perhaps it's been running all along but
you never noticed it before now?
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