On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:00:05PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Yes autovacuum is great for general low use scenarios. Throw it at a
> database doing hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of transactions
> an hour that has relations that in the multiple hundred gig range and
> autovacuum is useless for a good portion of that database.
This isn't a good argument for adding new knobs, though. It's an argument
for using the limited resources to make autovacuum better.
Compare with the never-ending arguments for index hints.
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