Agreed...
Thank you
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Anj Adu <fotographs@gmail.com> writes:
>> We have several partitioned tables that get dropped every day ..We do
>> not do autovacuum as it is an IO hog (and most tables are dropped
>> anyways..and the large tables are never updated)..
>
> If you're not going to run autovacuum then that means *you* must take
> responsibility for vacuuming everything on a reasonable schedule.
> That includes the system catalogs. I think you'd be better off taking
> the effort to learn to tune autovacuum to fit your requirements.
>
> regards, tom lane
>