From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | "Henry C(dot)" <henka(at)cityweb(dot)co(dot)za> |
Cc: | <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Autovacuum firing up during my manual vacuum on same table |
Date: | 2011-04-03 20:39:46 |
Message-ID: | 8c330cb05952fe3e0736ab90173cf76d@commandprompt.com |
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On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:26:56 +0200, "Henry C." <henka(at)cityweb(dot)co(dot)za> wrote:
> On Sat, April 2, 2011 14:17, Jens Wilke wrote:
>> Nevertheless since at least 8.4 IMO there's no need to bother with
>> manual vacuum any more.
Uhh, this is entirely untrue. There are plenty of cases where 8.4
autovacuum can't cut it.
>
> Sadly, in my case, the db is so busy that autovac processes run for
weeks
> and
> never catch up (insufficient h/w for the app quite frankly - the
addition
> of
You can disable autovacuum for the relations that you are manually
vacuuming. If pre 8.4 see pg_autovacuum, if post see alter table.
JD
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