Re: Autovacuum in the backend

Josh,

> Just my own two cents. First I am not knocking the work that has been on
> autovacuum. I am sure that it was a leap on its own to get it to work.
> However I will say that I just don't see the reason for it.

I've personally seen at least a dozen user requests for "autovacuum in the 
backend", and had this conversation about 1,100 times:

NB: "After a week, my database got really slow."
Me: "How often are you running VACUUM ANALYZE?"
NB: "Running what?"

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco