On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Henry C. <henka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, April 2, 2011 14:17, Jens Wilke wrote: >> Nevertheless since at least 8.4 IMO there's no need to bother with >> manual vacuum any more. > > Sadly, in my case, the db is so busy that autovac processes run for weeks and > never catch up (insufficient h/w for the app quite frankly - the addition of > some more SSD drives have already helped). I eventually run up against the > wraparound wall and the only way forward is to stop everything and > dump/restore (vacuuming the entire db would take an unknown period of N x > weeks - dumping/restoring completes in a day or two). Have you tried upping the aggressiveness of autovacuum? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general