Re: Vacuum only with 20% old tuples

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vacuum only with 20% old tuples
Date: 2000-07-12 15:40:18
Message-ID: 200007121540.LAA24061@candle.pha.pa.us
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> > I do not see what your 20% idea has to do with this, though, nor
> > why it's a good idea. If I've told the thing to vacuum I think
> > it should vacuum. 20% of a big table could be a lot of megabytes,
> > and I don't want some arbitrary decision in the code about whether
> > I can reclaim that space or not.
>
> I wouldn't mind seeing some automagic vacuum happen *if* >20% expired
> ... but don't understand the limit when I tell it to vacuum either ...

I am confused by your comment.

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