Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM
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In response to Re: Experimental patch for inter-page delay in VACUUM  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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Christopher Browne wrote:

> The world rejoiced as hannu@tm.ee (Hannu Krosing) wrote:
>> Christopher Browne kirjutas E, 03.11.2003 kell 02:15:
>>> Well, actually, the case where it _would_ be troublesome would be
>>> where there was a combination of huge tables needing vacuuming and
>>> smaller ones that are _heavily_ updated (e.g. - account balances),
>>> where pg_autovacuum might take so long on some big tables that it
>>> wouldn't get to the smaller ones often enough.  
>>
>> Can't one just run a _separate_ VACUUM on those smaller tables ?
> 
> Yes, but that defeats the purpose of having a daemon that tries to
> manage this all for you.

It only shows where the daemon has potential for improvement. If it 
knows approximately the table sizes, it can manage a separate "passing" 
lane for the fast and high frequent commuters.


Jan

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