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Re: Allowing VACUUM to time out when waiting for locks?

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Old 04-11-2008, 03:31 AM
Bruno Wolff III
 
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Default Re: Allowing VACUUM to time out when waiting for locks?

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 01:23:11 +1100,
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> wrote:
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> We have a frequently updated (peak > 5/sec) table with about 1000 rows.
>
> We run VACCUM FULL on this table every 5 minutes.


Why not just use plain VACUUM? The table will reach a steady state size.
You should only need to use VACUUM FULL if an event causes the table
to bloat to significantly more than steady state size and you want to reduce
the size again.

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