Re: Feature freeze date for 8.1

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Christopher Browne wrote:
>
>> Some reasonable approximations might include:
>> - How much disk I/O was recorded in the last 60 seconds?
>> - How many application transactions (e.g. - invoices or such) were
>>   issued in the last 60 seconds (monitoring a sequence could be
>>   good enough).
>
>
> Some way of doing a 'partial vacuum' would be nice ... where a VACUUM 
> could stop after it processed those '10 elderly tuples' and on the 
> next pass, resume from that point instead of starting from the 
> beginning again ...


That is sorta what the vacuum delay settings accomplish.