Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
> BTW, why not do an automatic vacuum instead of shutdown ? At least the
> DB do not stop working untill someone study what the problem is and
> how solve it.
No, the entire point of this discussion is to whup the DBA upside the
head with a big enough cluestick to get him to install autovacuum.
Once autovacuum is default, it won't matter anymore.
regards, tom lane
