I do have autovacuum on (as of yesterday). This was discovered when I ran vacuum on a whim. Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP Kingston General Hospital (613) 549-6666 x4294 -----Original Message----- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:10 PM To: Hartman, Matthew Cc: pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Vacuum on the database versus individual tables. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Hartman, Matthew<Matthew.Hartman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good morning. > > > > On occasion I'll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? As of 8.3, for the most part you can trust autovacuum to do its thing if it's enabled...there are exceptions to this but I'm curious why you are doing 'vacuum full'. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
