Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher Browne wrote: >>> Assuming that the tables in question aren't so large that they cause >>> mass eviction of buffers, it should suffice to do a plain VACUUM (and >>> NOT a "VACUUM FULL") on the tables in question quite frequently.
> This is easy to say and almost impraticable. I run a 7.4.5 with the autovacuum: > pg_autovacuum -d 3 -v 300 -V 0.5 -S 0.8 -a 200 -A 0.8 I'm not very familiar at all with appropriate settings for autovacuum, but doesn't the above say to vacuum a table only when the dead space reaches 50%? That seems awfully lax to me. I've always thought one should vacuum often enough to keep dead space to maybe 10 to 25%. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org