Re: Partial vacuum versus pg_class.reltuples

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Partial vacuum versus pg_class.reltuples
Date: 2009-06-08 14:12:18
Message-ID: 20090608141218.GC5598@alvh.no-ip.org
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Robert Haas escribió:

> Basically, I'm trying to figure out what we're going to recommend to
> someone who gets bitten by whatever remaining corner case still exists
> after your recent patch, and I admit I'm not real clear on what that
> is. VACUUM FULL doesn't seem like a good solution because it's more
> than just "vacuum but don't skip any pages even if the visibility map
> says you can". Maybe we should just have a GUC to enable/disable
> partial vacuums.

IIRC you can set vacuum_freeze_table_age to 0.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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