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From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: 12 hour table vacuums
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In response to 12 hour table vacuums  (Ron St-Pierre <ron.pgsql@shaw.ca>)
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On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 08:53 -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote:
> The table gets updated only
> about 10 times a day.

So why are you VACUUMing it nightly? You should do this at the weekend
every 3 months...

8.1 is slower at VACUUMing indexes than later releases, so 60 indexes
are going to hurt quite a lot.

The default maintenance_work_mem is sufficient for this table.

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  Simon Riggs
  2ndQuadrant  http://www.2ndQuadrant.com

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