Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Tony Caduto wrote:
>>
>>> I did not have autovacuum turned on and I usually do a vacuumdb -z -a -f
>>> -q each night but this one slipped through the cracks :-(
>>>
>
>
>> Strange -- autovacuum should have started an automatic database-wide
>> vacuum on that database, even if disabled.
>>
>
> We only added that in 8.2, no? 8.1 autovacuum would have forced the
> vacuum to occur, but only if it was enabled in postgresql.conf.
>
And in 8.2 it's only a per table vacuum that is required. Is that
correct too?
> regards, tom lane
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