Re: Re: dramatic slowdown. . .fixed by vacuum

From: Andrew McMillan <Andrew(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
To: Joe Slag <jslag(at)visi(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: dramatic slowdown. . .fixed by vacuum
Date: 2000-07-21 21:35:47
Message-ID: 3978C233.FB8D8DFC@catalyst.net.nz
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Joe Slag wrote:
>
> I see in the docs the suggestion:
>
> We recommend that active production databases be VACUUMM-ed nightly
>
> Is this how people tend to do their vacuuming? Does anyone do programmatic
> vacuums instead of / in addition to a nightly run? Is vacuuming mainly
> necessary after big deletes, or are there other common situations
> requiring it?

I run vacuum more often than daily on a few tables which have frequent
updates and where I can handle the table lock for the necessary length
of time.

Cheers,
Andrew
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