Re: Turn off vacuum in pgbench?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
> > Now that PostgreSQL 8.3 enables autovacuum by default, I think pgbench
> > should stop issuing vacuum in pgbench -i since an ordinary vacuum will
> > take very long time under autovacuum running. If there's no objection,
> > I will remove vacuum from pgbench.
> 
> I'd be inclined to leave it there, simply because you'll be changing
> the conditions of the benchmark if you take it out.  I have not noticed
> any particular problems with it...

I wonder if autovacuum itself is going to add more variability to the
test (like we don't have enough already).

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