Anj Adu escribió: > Reason we dont turn on autovacuum is that we are a "high-volume" > insert shop with minimal updates..We have about 200 million inserts > and a few thousand updates only. Most tables are partitions and get > dropped as part of the purge. Hence..autovacuum is a waste of > resources. However...the XID issue will force the need for an > autovacuum at some point..hence we do it as a one-off occasionally. Hmm, in 8.2 you won't need to vacuum any tables that you drop or truncate. Only permanent tables will need to be vacuumed once in a while. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
