Re: pgadmin "Running VACUUM recommended"

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Anibal David Acosta <aa(at)devshock(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgadmin "Running VACUUM recommended"
Date: 2011-06-15 20:43:02
Message-ID: 1308170582.1993.86.camel@laptop
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On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:01 -0400, Anibal David Acosta wrote:
> Hello, I have installed postgres 9.0 that is supposed has by default
> auto vacuum enabled
>
>
>
> But sometimes when I click over a table in the pgadmin, this
> application recommend me to vacuum
>
> The message is:
>
> “The estimated rowcount on the table XXX deviates significantly from
> the actual rowcount. You should run VACUUM ANALYZE on this table.
>
>
>
> Why this happened? The auto vacuum is not doing a good job?
>

Nope. pgAdmin detects that with a really simple algorithm. Not sure it's
still a good one. There are better chances pgAdmin is wrong than
autovacuum.

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Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info
http://www.dalibo.com

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