Hi,
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:07:24AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Yann Michel <yann-postgresql@spline.de> writes:
> > Well, now that I'm thinking about, what you've written I think this is
> > exactly the point. I think, that there is a VACUUM waiting for the dump
> > to finish whereas the INSERTS are waiting for the VACUUM to finish.
>
> Only if it's a VACUUM FULL ... plain VACUUM neither blocks INSERT nor is
> blocked by pg_dump.
>
> The short answer may be "don't use VACUUM FULL" (at least not for
> routine automatic vacuums).
... I guiess that the AUTOVACUUM switch only does an automated VACUUM
but no VACUUM FULL?
Cheers,
Yann
