From: | Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> |
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To: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> |
Cc: | Oisin Glynn <me(at)oisinglynn(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: VACUUM Question |
Date: | 2006-01-26 20:44:30 |
Message-ID: | 20060126204430.GA97564@winnie.fuhr.org |
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:35:42PM -0500, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> If you really are just inserting, and never updating or deleting, then you
> will never need to vacuum the table, rather you will just need to ANALYSE
> the table.
That's not quite true; the table must still be vacuumed occasionally
to prevent transaction ID wraparound failure, else you risk losing
data.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/maintenance.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND
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Michael Fuhr
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