Re: Autovaccum and Full vacuum

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Tony Day <tonyd(at)panztel(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Shoaib
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Sorry - I forgot to mention that I am using PostgreSQL 8.3.9 on Ubuntu
> 9.04.
> And just to be clear - I am not suggesting that there is a bug in
> Postgresql :-)
> I am just trying to clarify what it does and doesn't do.
>
>
>
You can find on docs autovacuum at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/routine-vacuuming.html#AUTOVACUUM

It uses VACUUM and not VACUUM FULL, there shouldn't be a need of VACUUM FULL
if you have autovacuum enabled with proper thresholds. There can be an odd
case where you might have to make auto-vacuum a little more aggressive for a
specific table.

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