Re: Autovacuum in postgres.

venu madhav wrote:
> Thanks for the reply..
>            I am using postgres 8.01 and since it runs on a client box, I
> can't upgrade it. I've set the auto vacuum nap time to 3600 seconds.

That is an older version of autovacuum that wasn't very capable.

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> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>
> > venu madhav wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >        In my application we are using postgres which runs on an embedded
> > > box. I have configured autovacuum to run once for every one hour. It has
> > 5
> > > different databases in it. When I saw the log messages, I found that it
> > is
> > > running autovacuum on one database every hour. As a result, on my
> > database
> > > autovacuum is run once in 5 hours. Is there any way to make it run it
> > every
> > > hour.
> >
> > What settings did you change to make it run every hour?  Also, it will
> > only vacuum tables that need vacuuming.  What version of Postgres are
> > you using?
> >
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