Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
Cc: Ho Fat Tsang <namiwf(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 occasionally slow down
Date: 2007-06-29 13:33:51
Message-ID: 20070629133351.GE5184@alvh.no-ip.org
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Richard Huxton escribió:
> Ho Fat Tsang wrote:

> > Correct me if i am wrong. It seems postgresql 8.0 does not bundle
> >auto-vacuum by default. So all vacuum and analyse are done manually ? So
> >what i have tested related to vaccuum is running auto-vacuum (a executeable
> >located in /bin) parallel under normal production load but it seems won't
> >help.
>
> Can't remember whether 8.0 had autovacuum bundled and turned off or not
> bundled at all. If it's not running it can't be causing this problem though.

The separate binary he found is the contrib pg_autovacuum. Integrated
autovac got into 8.1.

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