On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:26 AM, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I suppose that's what I am going to do on a periodic basis from now > on. There is a lot of DELETE/UPDATE activity. But I wonder if the > vacuum stuff really should do something that's similar in function? > What do the high-end enterprise folks do -- surely they can't be > dumping/restoring every quarter or so....or are they? The pg_reorg tool (google it) can rebuild a live table rebuilds without taking major locks. It's better to try an engineer your database so that you have enough spare i/o to manage 1-2 continuously running vacuums, but if things get really out of whack it's there. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance