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Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum on a -mostly- r/o table



On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:08 +0200, Edoardo Ceccarelli wrote:
> 
> I have read that autovacuum cannot check to see pg load before
> launching 
> vacuum but is there any patch about it? that would sort out the
> problem 
> in a good and simple way. 

In some cases the solution to high load is to vacuum the tables being
hit the heaviest -- meaning that simply checking machine load isn't
enough to make that decision.

In fact, that high load problem is exactly why autovacuum was created in
the first place.
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