On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Fabrízio de Royes Mello <fabriziomello@gmail.com> writes: > > I work with some customer that have databases with a lot of schemas and > > sometimes we need to run manual VACUUM in one schema, and would be nice to > > have a new option to run vacuum in relations from a specific schema. > > I'm pretty skeptical of this alleged use-case. Manual vacuuming ought > to be mostly a thing of the past, and even if it's not, hitting > *everything* in a schema should seldom be an appropriate thing to do. >
I agree manual vacuum is a thing of the past, but autovacuum doesn't solve 100% of the cases, and sometimes we need to use it so my proposal is just do help DBAs and/or Sysadmins to write simple maintenance scripts.
> While the feature itself might be fairly innocuous, I'm just wondering > why we need to encourage manual vacuuming.
IMHO we will not encourage manual vacuuming, just give more flexibility to users.
> And why that, but not > say schema-wide ANALYZE, CLUSTER, TRUNCATE, ... >
+1. I can write patches for each of this maintenance statement too.
