Re: Outdated and misleading docs on vacuum

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au>
Cc: "pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Outdated and misleading docs on vacuum
Date: 2013-08-12 08:51:23
Message-ID: CA+OCxox4Bm79Ytc3r4sN1BXMv_7teWOS3CoLrYBEm40ZbEEFOA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Craig Ringer <ringerc(at)ringerc(dot)id(dot)au> wrote:
> Hi
>
> This page:
>
> http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/dev/maintenance.html
>
> contains info so outdated that it'd be better replaced with a link to the
> relevant PostgreSQL documentation. In particular, re vacuum:
>
> " While this tool is very handy for ad-hoc maintenance purposes, you are
> encouraged to install an automatic job, that performs a VACUUM job regularly
> to keep your database in a neat state."
>
> which suggests that it *predates autovacuum*.
>
> Pointed out by http://dba.stackexchange.com/q/47900/7788 .

Urgh. Got a few minutes to work up a patch?

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