Re: Vacuum Delay feature

Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian) would write:
> I guess my question is that now that we have the new cache
> replacement policy, is the vacuum delay worth while. I looked at
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~wieck/vacuum_cost/ and does seem
> useful.

They satisfy quite separate use cases, so both are surely useful.

- The new cache replacement policy allows us to make sure that cache
isn't getting blown on worthless things.

- Vacuum delay allows us to make sure that we aren't spending all our
I/O on vacuuming.

There is overlap between their uses, as both should help diminish the
use of I/O to fill buffers with data that was discarded, but they
surely have separate uses.
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