Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

Does the current implementation of pg_autovacuum have a way of setting
windows where it is allowed to vacuum? Many large 24/7 will only allow
vacuumming at certain times of the day.


Dave
On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 08:58, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> > There are two issues here : ease-of-use for admin and basic users.
> >
> > On for former point, admin ease-of-use, A little story a few month ago.
> >
> > I succeeded in advising production people here to switch some applications
> > from a mysql database, which was working perfectly, to a postgres
> > database. A few weeks later, the performances were desastrous. 30 seconds
> > to get an answer to a simple select on a 1500 entries tables. After
> > investigation, the problems were:
> >
> >  - no vacuum, although there were daily "DELETE FROM tables;"
> >    to empty all the data and reload from another source.
> >
> >  - no analyze, because the admin did not know about it.
>
> My goal is to have pg_autovacuum integrated into the backend for 7.5.  I
> don't know if it will default to being turned on or off, I'm sure that
> will be a discussion, but if it is defaulted to on, then this whole
> problem of having to train newbies about vacuum should just go away.
>
> Matthew
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