Hi Claudio, You mean running a VACUUM statement manually? I would basically try to avoid such a situation as the way I see it, the database should be configured in such a manner that it will be able to handle the load at any given moment and so I wouldn't want to manually intervene here. If you think differently, I'll be happy to stand corrected. Thanks, Ofer -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-performance-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Claudio Freire Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:31 PM To: pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Inserts or Updates On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Ofer Israeli <oferi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks Kevin for the ideas. Now that you have corrected our misconception regarding the autovacuum not handling index bloating, we are looking into running autovacuum frequently enough to make sure we don't have significant increase in table size or index size. We intend to keep our transactions short enough not to reach the situation where vacuum full or CLUSTER is needed. Also, rather than going overboard with autovacuum settings, do make it more aggressive, but also set up a regular, manual vacuum of either the whole database or whatever tables you need to vacuum at known-low-load hours. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance