Re: Autovac vs manual with analyze - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Autovac vs manual with analyze
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Msg-id 1268902942.3827.1696.camel@ebony
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In response to Autovac vs manual with analyze  (Scott Whitney <scott@journyx.com>)
List pgsql-admin
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 13:20 -0500, Scott Whitney wrote:

> My problem is that each Saturday at midnight, I have to start a
> vacuumdb -f -z -a or my pg_clog dir never clears out.

Why is your pg_clog dir a problem?

> So, my questions are:
>
> a) Is the manual vacuum needed for performance reasons, or is auto-vac
> sufficient?

If you don't know why you are running it, then you should skip it and
measure the difference.

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com


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