On 7/27/20 5:19 PM, Keith Fiske wrote:
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> Also, I would not recommend partitioning simply to improve vacuuming.
> Especially if extensive tuning hasn't been tried first. Most times you can
> get per-table tuning working well enough to get autovacuum running
> properly. Especially on 9.6 and even more-so on PG11, where autovacuum has
> itself been improved.
SIMPLY to improve vacuum performance? No. But there are reasons that
partitioning was "invented", and minimizing the work needed to be done on
the whole of a Very Large and Rapidly Growing table is one of them.
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