Re: Autovaccum

From: "Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha" <ezequias(dot)rocha(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Peter Childs" <peterachilds(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Autovaccum
Date: 2006-11-30 15:03:41
Message-ID: 55c095e90611300703j580fef50tae19393af37f7988@mail.gmail.com
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It is possible to set this up on PgAdmin ?

I need to shutdown the postgresql service to change this parameters ?

ps: Your information was very clear for me. Thank you very much.

Ezequias

2006/11/30, Peter Childs <peterachilds(at)gmail(dot)com>:
> On 30/11/06, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote:
> > > Hi list,
> > >
> > > I would like to know if it is necessary to set my database to
> > > autovaccum if the intent of my DB Manager is do not make any deletion
> > > in any time.
> > >
> > > If there is no deletions why autovaccum ok ?
> >
> > You need to vacuum from time to time anyway, even if you don't delete
> > anything. The easiest way to do it is let autovacuum do it for you.
> >
>
> Complete Answer.
>
> 1. If you do any updates or deletes you need to vacuum.
>
> 2. If you do any update, deletes or inserts you need to analyse.
>
> 3. If you never change anything No Updates, No Inserts, No Deletes you
> need to vacuum once ever 2 billion transactions due to wrap around if
> you don't your data will disappear. But depending on how busy your
> database is this could be once a year.
>
> 4. Auto Vacuum does all this automatically. Which is kind of useful.
>
> 5. You can do this manually via cron or by hand if you wish.
>
> Peter.
>
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