Re: Deadline-Based Vacuum Delay

On 12/28/06, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Galy Lee <lee.galy@oss.ntt.co.jp> writes:
> > So I am thinking another way to perform vacuum. For example vacuum can
> > be refined in a maintenance time frame like "VACUUM IN 6 HOURS", and
> > then vacuum operation will be performed within the window. The delay
> > time is adjusted internally to spread the disk I/O over the time frame.
>
> And you will manage that how?  The total amount of work to be done is
> quite unpredictable.
>

specially for something you already can do with cron (*nix) or job
scheduler (windows)

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