Richard Neill wrote:
> Or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely?
If you haven't already tuned checkpoint behavior, it's more likely
that's causing a dropout than autovacuum. See the checkpoint_segments
section of http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Server
for an intro.
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