Received: from localhost (maia-4.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7649F9F46 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:46:06 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34438-07 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:46:02 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from lists.commandprompt.com (host-130.commandprompt.net [207.173.203.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9969F9F44 for ; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:46:01 -0400 (AST) Received: from [192.168.1.65] (or-67-76-146-141.sta.embarqhsd.net [67.76.146.141]) (authenticated bits=0) by lists.commandprompt.com (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id kAQHk1vc020972; Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:46:01 -0800 Message-ID: <4569D33A.9090700@commandprompt.com> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:47:38 -0800 From: "Joshua D. Drake" Organization: Command Prompt, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Lane CC: "Craig A. James" , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: When to vacuum a table? References: <1164540257.7902.0.camel@panoramix> <20061126131147.GA4089@uio.no> <195C9B6B-2018-474C-AA80-239A8CEA37E9@gmail.com> <4569C04C.8090503@modgraph-usa.com> <19249.1164560766@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <19249.1164560766@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.5, clamav-milter version 0.88.5 on projects.commandprompt.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (lists.commandprompt.com [192.168.2.159]); Sun, 26 Nov 2006 09:46:02 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200611/225 X-Sequence-Number: 21995 > If you really want to know, read the mountains of (mostly) junk that > have been written about replacing VACUUM in pgsql-hackers. The short > answer (with apologies to Winston Churchill) is that VACUUM is the worst > solution, except for all the others that have been suggested. The lesser of 50 evils? ;) Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >