Re: Still recommending daily vacuum...

On Monday 02 July 2007 17:52, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> From
> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/routine-vacuuming.html :
>
> "Recommended practice for most sites is to schedule a database-wide
> VACUUM once a day at a low-usage time of day, supplemented by more
> frequent vacuuming of heavily-updated tables if necessary. (Some
> installations with extremely high update rates vacuum their busiest
> tables as often as once every few minutes.) If you have multiple
> databases in a cluster, don't forget to VACUUM each one; the program
> vacuumdb  might be helpful."
>
> Do we still want that to be our formal recommendation? ISTM it would be
> more logical to recommend a combination of autovac, daily vacuumdb -a if
> you can afford it and have a quiet period, and frequent manual vacuuming
> of things like web session tables.
>
> I'm happy to come up with a patch, but I figure there should be
> consensus first...

I generally recommend to try autovacuum first, augmented by 
vacuum/analyze/reindex if you find trouble.  I wont say there aren't 
workloads that autvacuum wont handle, but in most cases it does fine, and I 
expect that increase with 8.3. 

-- 
Robert Treat
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