| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mark <mark(at)ldssingles(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: vacuum and 24/7 uptime |
| Date: | 2001-07-11 22:06:16 |
| Message-ID: | 200107112206.f6BM6GF01439@candle.pha.pa.us |
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>
> Is Postgresql ready for 24/7 uptime? Our tests have shown that vacuumdb
> requires downtime, and if one does this nightly as suggested, well, one has
> downtime, 40+ minutes in our case.
>
> My company wants to replace MS SQL Server with PostgreSQL, but we can't
> afford downtime to do database maintenance. Is it possible that we are doing
> something wrong?
>
> What are the plans for future versions of pgsql? Will vacuum be optomized or
> otherwise enhanced to execute more quickly and/or not lock tables?
We hope to eliminate that downtime in 7.2.
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