On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Brian Cox <brian.cox@ca.com> wrote:
> In production, the table on which I ran DELETE FROM grows constantly with
> old data removed in bunches periodically (say up to a few 100,000s of rows
> [out of several millions] in a bunch). I'm assuming that auto-vacuum/analyze
> will allow Postgres to maintain reasonable performance for INSERTs and
> SELECTs on it; do you think that this is a reasonable assumption?
Yes, as long as you're deleting a small enough percentage that it
doesn't get bloated (100k of millions is a good ratio) AND autovacuum
is running AND you have enough FSM entries to track the dead tuples
you're gold.
