Re: pgsql: Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 8:57 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 05:48:41PM +0000, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM
> >
> > We have had a working and tunable autovacuum
> > for at least a decade now, so remove the recommendation to
> > manually vacuum tables at least every night.
> > Autovacuum is now also triggered by INSERTs, so we can also
> > remove the recommendation to run VACUUM (ANALYZE) after lots
> > of INSERTs or DELETEs.
> >
> > Instead, suggest using autovacuum by moving the respective
> > paragraph up to where the importance of VACUUM is emphasized.
> >
> > Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
> > Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Peter Geoghegan
> > Discussion:
> https://postgr.es/m/6f5e3da98fec14640f389d7b84c3b413833697f4.camel@cybertec.at
> >
> > Branch
> > ------
> > master
> >
> > Details
> > -------
> >
> https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/27f953ea9901c08fb3e4064f9a31e07bc30c1e6d
> >
> > Modified Files
> > --------------
> > doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml | 20 +++++---------------
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> Uh, shouldn't this doc patch be applied to all major supported Postgres
> versions?
>
>
Not sure. If we do we'd at least have to adapt it past the point where
autovacuum handles INSERTs I think?

//Magnus