On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 07:04:45PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> I am slightly confused here. IIRC pg_autovacuum never did a vacuum full. At
> the most it does vacuum /vacuum analyse, none of which chew disk bandwidth.
The latter is false. VACUUM FULL certainly uses _more_ disk
bandwidth than VACUUM, but it's just false that plain VACUUM doesn't
contend for disk. And if you're already maxed, then that extra
bandwidth you cannot afford.
A
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