On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:00:05PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Yes autovacuum is great for general low use scenarios. Throw it at a > database doing hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of transactions > an hour that has relations that in the multiple hundred gig range and > autovacuum is useless for a good portion of that database. This isn't a good argument for adding new knobs, though. It's an argument for using the limited resources to make autovacuum better. Compare with the never-ending arguments for index hints. A ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq