Re: Database size Vs performance degradation - Mailing list pgsql-performance

Mark Roberts <mailing_lists@pandapocket.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:16 +0100, Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>> Anyway, surely it's much safer to just run VACUUM manually?

> Generally, you would think so.  The problem comes from Vacuum blocking
> the application process' writes.

Huh?  Vacuum doesn't block writes.

            regards, tom lane