Re: RFC: changing autovacuum_naptime semantics

From: Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl>
To: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: RFC: changing autovacuum_naptime semantics
Date: 2007-03-09 08:39:00
Message-ID: 71005F96-3B72-496E-A3A7-FEAC0E542CBB@pointblue.com.pl
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On Mar 9, 2007, at 6:42 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Now regarding your restartable vacuum work. I think that stopping a
>> vacuum at some point and being able to restart it later is very
>> cool and
>> may get you some hot chicks, but I'm not sure it's really useful.
>
> Too true :-(

Yeah.
Wouldn't 'divide and conquer' kinda approach make it better ? Ie. let
vacuum to work on some part of table/db. Than stop, pick up another
part later, vacuum it, etc, etc ?

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Grzegorz Jaskiewicz
gj(at)pointblue(dot)com(dot)pl

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