On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Wang, Mary Y <mary.y.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at my log file (see my log file below) and it seems like the autovacuum daemon is turned on by default in Postgres 8.3.8. Does that mean that I no longer need to manually invoke the autovacuum command anymore? I used to do it manually in an older version of Postgres. For most installations autovacuum with default settings is just fine. If you run a really busy site then you might have to adjust the parameters of autovac as well as the free space map. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general