Re: Parallel VACUUM in feature matrix on website

From: Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Parallel VACUUM in feature matrix on website
Date: 2015-09-27 20:06:05
Message-ID: CAA-aLv6GP1HLQvcHo_5WWuJ9M7gxrpejwM2C71Kf81oHTe3_ag@mail.gmail.com
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On 27 September 2015 at 20:43, Peter Geoghegan
<peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com> wrote:
>> It allows multiple vacuum processes to be initiated from vacuumdb at
>> the same time (i.e. in parallel), although not for the same tables.
>> What do you propose would be more appropriate?
>
> "Parallel vacuumdb jobs" seems better. I have seen cases where the
> existing wording caused confusion.
>
> I think that we will probably have actual parallel vacuum within the
> next couple of releases (probably vacuuming multiple indexes at the
> same time, using a list of TIDs in shared memory). The messaging here
> is important.

Okay, I've changed it to "Parallel vacuumdb jobs".

Thom

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