Just curious,
What are most of you setting your vacuum and autovacuum parameters to for your 8.x databases. I just turned on autovacuuming on one of my db servers and went with a very conservative vacuum_cost_delay of 200 and vacuum_cost_limit of 50. I am wondering if anyone else has tested to find out just how far you can push your vacuum/autovacuum before you start to feel performance hits from running it?
Thanks,
Chris
P.S.
I chose these numbers based upon the documentation at http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html