Re: pgsql: Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM
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Msg-id CABUevEy8Un4od09168-7B0k0R3w5gVjUjPg-KQ3ARdoZLgnoGg@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 8:57 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 05:48:41PM +0000, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM
>
> We have had a working and tunable autovacuum
> for at least a decade now, so remove the recommendation to
> manually vacuum tables at least every night.
> Autovacuum is now also triggered by INSERTs, so we can also
> remove the recommendation to run VACUUM (ANALYZE) after lots
> of INSERTs or DELETEs.
>
> Instead, suggest using autovacuum by moving the respective
> paragraph up to where the importance of VACUUM is emphasized.
>
> Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
> Reviewed-By: Magnus Hagander, Peter Geoghegan
> Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/6f5e3da98fec14640f389d7b84c3b413833697f4.camel@cybertec.at
>
> Branch
> ------
> master
>
> Details
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> https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/27f953ea9901c08fb3e4064f9a31e07bc30c1e6d
>
> Modified Files
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> doc/src/sgml/ref/vacuum.sgml | 20 +++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Uh, shouldn't this doc patch be applied to all major supported Postgres
versions?


Not sure. If we do we'd at least have to adapt it past the point where autovacuum handles INSERTs I think?

//Magnus
 

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