Re: set autovacuum=off - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Thom Brown
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In response to Re: set autovacuum=off  (Alessandro Gagliardi <alessandro@path.com>)
Responses Re: set autovacuum=off  (Alessandro Gagliardi <alessandro@path.com>)
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On 23 February 2012 17:35, Alessandro Gagliardi <alessandro@path.com> wrote:
> I should have been more clear. I virtually never delete or do updates, but I
> insert a lot. So the table does change quite a bit, but only in one
> direction.

The same thing applies.  VACUUM cleans up dead tuples, which INSERTs
don't create, only DELETE and UPDATEs do.

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Thom

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