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.
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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan