Re: Forced quiesce - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Forced quiesce
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Msg-id 1289228619-sup-7871@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Forced quiesce  ("Little, Douglas" <DOUGLAS.LITTLE@orbitz.com>)
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Excerpts from Little, Douglas's message of jue oct 28 09:39:19 -0300 2010:
> Hi,
> We're having to vacuum full the system tables everyday due to the number of  temp table drop/creates.

Seems to me that you're solving the wrong problem.  I think you should
be doing very frequent lazy vacuum (not full) of certain system catalogs
to prevent bloat.  That way you don't need the maintenance to be done
with exclusive locks.

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