Re: Preventing duplicate vacuums?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Thomas Swan <tswan(at)idigx(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Preventing duplicate vacuums?
Date: 2004-02-07 05:43:25
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> What about a situation where someone would have lazy vacuums cron'd and
> it takes longer to complete the vacuum than the interval between
> vacuums. You could wind up with an ever increasing queue of vacuums.
>
> Erroring out with a "vacuum already in progress" might be useful.

I have seen this many times with customers as their traffic on the
database grows. A simple check would be of great, great use.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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