Rob Nagler <nagler@bivio.biz> writes:
> When vacuum is running, it's going through the entire
> database, and that pretty much trashes all other queries, especially
> DSS queries. As always it is just software, and there's got to be
> 80/20 solution.
One thing that's been discussed but not yet tried is putting a tunable
delay into VACUUM's per-page loop (ie, sleep N milliseconds after each
heap page is processed, and probably each index page too). This might
be useless or it might be the 80/20 solution you want. Want to try it
and report back?
regards, tom lane
