On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 08:47, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Markus Schaber <schabi 'at' logix-tt.com> writes: > > > > VACUUM ANALYZE is normally run overnight (each night). Is it not > > > regular enough? There can be hundreds of thousands of statements > > > a day. > > > > Which PostgreSQL version are you using? Maybe you should consider > > autovacuum (which is a contrib module at least since 7.4, and included > > in the server since 8.1). If you think that vacuum during working hours > > puts too much load on your server, there are options to tweak that, at > > least in 8.1. > > Ok, thanks. Unfortunately production insists on sticking on 7.4.5 > for the moment :/ There are known data loss bugs in that version. You should at least make them update to 7.4.13. Running 7.4.5 instead of 7.4.13 is a bad decision. Note that there is no need for migrating your data or any of that with an update within the same major / minor version. As long as the first two numbers don't change, it's a very simple and fast upgrade. NOT doing it is negligent.
