Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

From: Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>
To: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho(at)cri(dot)ensmp(dot)fr>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: 2004-04-23 15:07:20
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Does the current implementation of pg_autovacuum have a way of setting
windows where it is allowed to vacuum? Many large 24/7 will only allow
vacuumming at certain times of the day.

Dave
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 08:58, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> > There are two issues here : ease-of-use for admin and basic users.
> >
> > On for former point, admin ease-of-use, A little story a few month ago.
> >
> > I succeeded in advising production people here to switch some applications
> > from a mysql database, which was working perfectly, to a postgres
> > database. A few weeks later, the performances were desastrous. 30 seconds
> > to get an answer to a simple select on a 1500 entries tables. After
> > investigation, the problems were:
> >
> > - no vacuum, although there were daily "DELETE FROM tables;"
> > to empty all the data and reload from another source.
> >
> > - no analyze, because the admin did not know about it.
>
> My goal is to have pg_autovacuum integrated into the backend for 7.5. I
> don't know if it will default to being turned on or off, I'm sure that
> will be a discussion, but if it is defaulted to on, then this whole
> problem of having to train newbies about vacuum should just go away.
>
> Matthew
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