On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 16:53, Stephen Frost wrote: > Would it make sense for vacuum to keep a list of 'last vacuumed' or > similar so that it doesn't vacuum a table which hasn't changed since > the last time it was vacuum'd? Seems to me that would be a pretty > simple optimization which would help out alot on systems which have > both a large set of tables which are relatively static and data which > changes a great deal. This is especially true for vacuum full which > also locks the table.
7.4Beta has a contrib module called pg_autovacuum. It attempts to do exactly what you are talking about. It only vacuums a table that has had sufficient activity since the last vacuum. It runs as a standalone daemon. Also, it can be used against 7.3 if that is what you are running. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly