Re: Preventing duplicate vacuums? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Preventing duplicate vacuums?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0402062142430.12927-100000@hosting.commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Preventing duplicate vacuums?  (Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com>)
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> What about a situation where someone would have lazy vacuums cron'd and 
> it takes longer to complete the vacuum than the interval between 
> vacuums.  You could wind up with an ever increasing queue of vacuums.
> 
> Erroring out with a "vacuum already in progress" might be useful.

I have seen this many times with customers as their traffic on the 
database grows. A simple check would be of great, great use.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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