Joe Slag wrote:
>
> I see in the docs the suggestion:
>
> We recommend that active production databases be VACUUMM-ed nightly
>
> Is this how people tend to do their vacuuming? Does anyone do programmatic
> vacuums instead of / in addition to a nightly run? Is vacuuming mainly
> necessary after big deletes, or are there other common situations
> requiring it?
I run vacuum more often than daily on a few tables which have frequent
updates and where I can handle the table lock for the necessary length
of time.
Cheers,
Andrew
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