Re: VACUUM - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: VACUUM
Date
Msg-id 20021120130438.B8903@mail.libertyrms.com
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In response to Re: VACUUM  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 05:18:06PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> The business about "you must vacuum at least every billion transactions"
> is a different issue.  Either plain or full vacuum will satisfy that
> requirement.

Note, also, that it is _every_ table needs to be vacuumed in that
billion transaction period, but it is nevertheless probable that some
of your tables will not need to be vacuumed as often as others.  For
efficiency's sake, therefore, you may want to vacuum different tables
at different times.

A

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