On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:26:56 +0200, "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. > > Uhh, this is entirely untrue. There are plenty of cases where 8.4 > autovacuum can't cut it. This is doubly true if you haven't adjusted any of the default costing parameters of autovacuum. It is not set to the level of aggressiveness needed for big servers under high load, since doing so would slow down / swamp smaller servers. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general