Vinubalaji Gopal wrote:
> I tried using the nice command (Linux system) on the maintenance script
> - it did not have any effect - guess it does not change the niceness of
> the postgresql vacuum process.
You are probably looking for the command ionice. nice only affects the CPU
priority, and that is usually not the primary problem for vacuum. (And yes,
you need to nice the server process, not the client script.)
