Re: Still recommending daily vacuum...

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
>>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/routine-vacuuming.html :
>>> Well, with autovac defaulting to ON in 8.3, that's certainly obsolete
>>> text now.
>>>
>>> Is there a reason to say anything beyond "use autovac"?
>> Did we change the default autovac parameters for 8.3 (beyond turning it
>> on?) because on any reasonably used database, they are way to conservative.
>
> We're still on time to change them ... Any concrete proposals?

I could provide numbers from production high use databases. We could
probably back those down a little and make more reasonable numbers.

Joshua D. Drake

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