More important than sleep value is the vacuum threshold. If for example you are expecting to import 5000 rows of data, you can tell pg_autovacuum to vacuum after every 5000 changes with like pg_autovacuum -v 5000 -V 0 Matthew On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:09, Carlos wrote: > Hello Forum, > > I would appreciate it if you could recommend settings to use > auto-vacuum in my version 7.4 database. I am uploading several > thousands records in the database at a rate of ~1 second per record > (the data is uploading from a different server). I have noticed that > the performance of the uploading is improved if I vacuum the database > every so often so I decided to take advantage of auto-vacuuming to > maintain the best performance. Since I am uploading several thousands > records, I set autovacuum to 50 minutes with âs 3000 in the hope that > a great deal of data would be committed before a regular vacuum would > take place and that vacuuming would interfere the least possible with > the uploading. > > > > Thanks in advance for your recommendations. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org
