> Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
>> We do ~4000 txn/minute so in 6 month you are screewd up...
>
> Sure, but if you ran without vacuuming for 6 months, wouldn't you notice
> the
> huge slowdowns from all those dead tuples before that?
>
>
I would think that only applies to databases where UPDATE and DELETE are
done often. What about databases that are 99.999% inserts? A DBA lightly
going over the docs may not even know that vacuum needs to be run.