From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Campbell, Lance" <lance(at)uiuc(dot)edu>, "posgres support" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Enhancement request |
Date: | 2007-11-30 22:53:01 |
Message-ID: | 36e682920711301453x2d361iff5d3f8679606d3e@mail.gmail.com |
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On Nov 30, 2007 5:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > So: show me a use case for this that will still make sense in a
> > mostly-autovacuum world.
>
> I think you are living in a different world than I am if you think it
> is a mostly-autovacuum world.
Same here.
> Yes autovacuum is great for general low use scenarios. Throw it at a
> database doing hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of transactions
> an hour that has relations that in the multiple hundred gig range and
> autovacuum is useless for a good portion of that database.
Yes, this is precisely the case I'm talking about. Every single
high-volume client we have or have consulted for is using custom
vacuuming. Autovacuum works fine for the common case, but it doesn't
handle high-volume databases very well yet.
> The thing is, it isn't nearly as special case for my environments. I
> have many customers, with many tables where autovacuum just doesn't cut
> it. We turn it on for say 80% of the relations but guess what... the
> important relations are still on some type of schedule through
> something like cron.
>
> I get your argument but surely adding SCHEMA isn't that much of a code
> bloat scenario. We don't even have to add another reserved word...
Agreed. It's very simple and won't add much code at all.
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