Re: Vacuum takes forever

From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum takes forever
Date: 2007-05-30 14:11:04
Message-ID: 20070530141104.GE16260@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:56:07PM +0200, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
> Thanks, I tried it and it worked. I did not know that changing this
> setting would result in such a performance drop ( I just followed an

It's not a performance drop. It's an on-purpose delay of the
functionality, introduced so that _other_ transactions don't get I/O
starved. ("Make vacuum fast" isn't in most cases an interesting
goal.)

A

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