[Matthew T. O'Connor - Wed at 02:33:10PM -0400] > In addition autovacuum respects the work of manual or cron based > vacuums, so if you issue a vacuum right after a daily batch insert / > update, autovacuum won't repeat the work of that manual vacuum. I was experimenting a bit with autovacuum now. To make the least effect possible, I started with a too high cost_delay/cost_limit-ratio. The effect of this was that autovacuum "never" finished the transactions it started with, and this was actually causing the nightly vacuum to not do it's job good enough.