Re: VACUUM Question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: VACUUM Question
Date
Msg-id 20060126204430.GA97564@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Re: VACUUM Question  ("Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>)
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 02:35:42PM -0500, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> If you really are just inserting, and never updating or deleting, then you
> will never need to vacuum the table, rather you will just need to ANALYSE
> the table.

That's not quite true; the table must still be vacuumed occasionally
to prevent transaction ID wraparound failure, else you risk losing
data.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/maintenance.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND

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Michael Fuhr

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