Re: Using the 8.2 autovacuum values with 8.1

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
Cc: Mark Stosberg <mark(at)summersault(dot)com>, postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using the 8.2 autovacuum values with 8.1
Date: 2007-02-23 17:37:36
Message-ID: 20070223173736.GA19527@nasby.net
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On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:13:31AM +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> You likely don't need the nightly full vacuum run... we also do here a
> nightly vacuum beside autovacuum, but not a full one, only for tables
> which are big enough that we don't want autovacuum to touch them in high
> business time but they have enough change that we want a vacuum on them
> frequent enough. I discover them by checking the stats, for example:

Something else I like doing is a periodic vacuumdb -av and capture the
output. It's a good way to keep an eye on FSM utilization. Once you've
got vacuuming under control you can probably just do that once a month
or so.
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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