Re: Startup process thrashing

Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> > Not exactly.  What it said was "To avoid a database shutdown, execute a
> > full-database VACUUM".  In that context, "full" means you vacuum
> > everything in the database, but only regular VACUUM is needed.  VACUUM
> > FULL, as you learned the hard way, is a more intensive operation, and it's
> > not needed to resolve the problem you started with.  It's a somewhat
> > unfortunately worded HINT.
>
> Maybe we could rephrase it as "whole-database VACUUM"?

"database-wide VACUUM"?

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