On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Wang, Mary Y <mary(dot)y(dot)wang(at)boeing(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking at my log file (see my log file below) and it seems like the autovacuum daemon is turned on by default in Postgres 8.3.8. Does that mean that I no longer need to manually invoke the autovacuum command anymore? I used to do it manually in an older version of Postgres.
For most installations autovacuum with default settings is just fine.
If you run a really busy site then you might have to adjust the
parameters of autovac as well as the free space map.