>If your max_fsm_pages is set to higher than the level of data pages you
>recycle between vacuums, and you don't run out of memory on the machine for
>significant periods, then you need never do a vacuum_full.
>
>
>
I knew that it would delay the need for a vacuum full but I didn't know
it could
potentially eliminate it. O.k.
>The functionality in 7.4 extends this to indexes, eliminating the REINDEX in
>most cases.
>
>
>
Interesting.
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