On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Hoover escribió: > > I just have a couple of quick questions about 8.3 and Autovacuum. > > > > 1. When autovacuum chooses to vacuum a table, the entire table is > vacuumed, > > and not just a specified percentage of the table. Correct? > > Yes. > > > 2. There is no way, without turning autovacuum off, of excluding > > vacuum/analyze during a specific period of time (say during a known peak > > usage period). > > Nope, no way. (You could have a script to update the > pg_autovacuum.enabled flag, and change it using cron.) > > > 3. If I have a PostgreSQL cluster with 10 databases, does > > autovacuum_max_workers=3 mean I have a possibility of 3 total workers or > 30 > > workers (i.e. autovacuum_max_workers * number of db's)? > > 3 workers total. > > -- > Alvaro Herrera > http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ > The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. > Alvaro, Thanks a bunch for the concise answers. That is exactly what we needed to confirm. Chris
