Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem

From: Kaare Rasmussen <kar(at)webline(dot)dk>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
Date: 2001-05-19 08:38:29
Message-ID: 01051910382902.14217@bering
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> Second: if VACUUM can run in the background, then there's no reason not
> to run it fairly frequently. In fact, it could become an automatically
> scheduled activity like CHECKPOINT is now, or perhaps even a continuously
> running daemon (which was the original conception of it at Berkeley, BTW).

Maybe it's obvious, but I'd like to mention that you need some way of setting
priority. If it's a daemon, or a process, you an nice it. If not, you need to
implement something by yourself.

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