Re: Help me recovering data

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Help me recovering data
Date: 2005-02-17 09:12:59
Message-ID: 4214601B.9020103@familyhealth.com.au
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>>And most databases get a mix of updates and selects. I would expect it would
>>be pretty hard to go that long with any significant level of update activity
>>and no vacuums and not notice the performance problems from the dead tuples.
>
>
> I think the people who've managed to shoot themselves in the foot this
> way are those who decided to "optimize" their cron jobs to only vacuum
> their user tables, and forgot about the system catalogs.

That's certainly the case with one of the people we helped in IRC - 3
user tables only being vacuumed.

Chris

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