Peter Koczan <pjkoczan@gmail.com> writes:
> The issue was that a routine VACUUM process (vacuumdb -az, called
> nightly via cron) was locking a table and wasn't completing. This
> server is also running autovacuum. This wasn't the source of the
> deadlock, but I'm wondering if regular vacuuming is necessary or even
> desirable with autovacuum running. Is there any reason for me to not
> disable the vacuum cron job and just tweak autovacuum parameters (or
> even just to leave the defaults)?
On versions where autovacuum is on by default, I would certainly
recommend trying to use only autovacuum. cron-driven vacuum still
has some uses but they are corner cases.
regards, tom lane