Re: Parallel VACUUM in feature matrix on website - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Peter Geoghegan
Subject Re: Parallel VACUUM in feature matrix on website
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In response to Re: Parallel VACUUM in feature matrix on website  (Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>)
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On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
> It allows multiple vacuum processes to be initiated from vacuumdb at
> the same time (i.e. in parallel), although not for the same tables.
> What do you propose would be more appropriate?

"Parallel vacuumdb jobs" seems better. I have seen cases where the
existing wording caused confusion.

I think that we will probably have actual parallel vacuum within the
next couple of releases (probably vacuuming multiple indexes at the
same time, using a list of TIDs in shared memory). The messaging here
is important.

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Regards,
Peter Geoghegan


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