X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9279DC81E for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:05:30 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 22883-05 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:05:34 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (news.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 578399DC86A for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:05:26 -0400 (AST) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id CD66D30F0A; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:05:30 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Riess X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: Autovacuum / full vacuum Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:05:29 +0100 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 7 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.054 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.054] X-Spam-Score: 0.054 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200601/229 X-Sequence-Number: 16707 > VACUUM FULL blocks the application. That is NOT something that anyone > wants to throw into the "activity mix" randomly. There must be a way to implement a daemon which frees up space of a relation without blocking it too long. It could abort after a certain number of blocks have been freed and then move to the next relation.