Re: Background vacuum

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Background vacuum
Date: 2007-05-19 22:38:12
Message-ID: 464F7C54.7090902@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Greg Smith wrote:
>
> Let's break this down into individual parts:

Great summary.

> 4) Is vacuuming a challenging I/O demand? Quite.
>
> Add all this up, and that fact that you're satisfied with how nice has
> worked successfully for you doesn't have to conflict with an opinion
> that it's not the best approach for controlling vacuuming. I just
> wouldn't extrapolate your experience too far here.

I wasn't claiming it's a the best approach for vacuuming.

From my first posting in this thread I've been agreeing that
vacuum_cost_delay is the better tool for handling vacuum. Just
that the original poster also asked for a way of setting priorities
so I pointed him to one.

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