Re: When to vacuum a table?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Craig A(dot) James" <cjames(at)modgraph-usa(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: When to vacuum a table?
Date: 2006-11-26 17:47:38
Message-ID: 4569D33A.9090700@commandprompt.com
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> If you really want to know, read the mountains of (mostly) junk that
> have been written about replacing VACUUM in pgsql-hackers. The short
> answer (with apologies to Winston Churchill) is that VACUUM is the worst
> solution, except for all the others that have been suggested.

The lesser of 50 evils? ;)

Joshua D. Drake

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