Re: Setting vacuum_mem for vacuumdb utility

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Jeff Boes wrote:
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>>I just discovered that the use of a much larger setting on vacuum_mem
>>has a joyous effect on the throughput of VACUUM FULL for some of our
>>tables. However, all of my maintenance scripts use "vacuumdb" (the
>>command-line utility) instead of psql. How can I set vacuum_mem for the
>>duration of the vacuumdb command's execution?
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>Sure, set it in postgresql.conf.
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You can also modify the vacuumdb script.  I just added a set call to the
script to set the memory to a high value when vacuuming and reset it
back to normal when finished so I don't take extra memory away from the
server.