Re: Vacuum improvement

On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 05:22, Gavin Sherry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm thinking that there is an improvement to vacuum which could be made
> for 7.4. VACUUM FULLing large, heavily updated tables is a pain. There's
> very little an application can do to minimise dead-tuples, particularly if
> the table is randomly updated. Wouldn't it be beneficial if VACUUM could
> have a parameter which specified how much of the table is vacuumed. That
> is, you could specify:
> 
> VACUUM FULL test 20 precent;

What about

VACUUM FULL test WORK 5 SLEEP 50;

meaning to VACUUM FULL the whole table, but to work in small chunks and
relaese all locks and let others access the tables between these ?

You could even fire up a separate thread to 

VACUUM [FULL] test WORK 5 SLEEP 50 CONTINUOUS;

To keep vacuuming a heavily updated table.

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Hannu