On 27 September 2015 at 20:33, Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> wrote: > It's not really parallel VACUUM, is it? So why call it parallel VACUUM?
It allows multiple vacuum processes to be initiated from vacuumdb at the same time (i.e. in parallel), although not for the same tables. What do you propose would be more appropriate?
Sounds more like a parallel vacuumdb, than a parallel VACUUM, to me :)