On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
> S Arvind <arvindwill@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The reason why we need it manually is , we don't need any
>> performance drop in our production hours. So we figured out the most
>> less usage working time, most freq used tables and want to perform
>> that on daily . so in weekends we can vaccum and reindex entire db..
>
> By the time you get to your mass reindex the bloat will be harming
> your performance much more than the autovacuum needs to do. Check the
> documentation here:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/runtime-config-resource.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-RESOURCE-VACUUM-COST
>
> I hope this helps.
But before you try that, try just using the default settings and see
if you actually have a problem.
...Robert
