Re: Autovacuum Tuning advice

From: "Plugge, Joe R(dot)" <JRPlugge(at)west(dot)com>
To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz <gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum Tuning advice
Date: 2010-03-01 12:57:58
Message-ID: BD69807DAE0CE44CA00A8338D0FDD08302CBEF55D5@oma00cexmbx03.corp.westworlds.com
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Sorry, this is a “black box” application, I am bound by what they give me as far as table layout, but I fully understand the rationale. I believe this application spent its beginnings with Oracle, which explains the blanket use of VARCHAR.

From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz [mailto:gryzman(at)gmail(dot)com]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:51 AM
To: Plugge, Joe R.
Cc: Scott Marlowe; pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Autovacuum Tuning advice

storing all fields as varchar surely doesn't make:
- indicies small,
- the thing fly,
- tables small.

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