On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Was this true for some previous version? I could have swore I read somewhere > > that vacuum_mem had to be set high enough or vacuum wouldn't be able to clean > > everything up (aside from anything locked in transactions). > > Nope, never been the case. > > > Is performance the only reason for increasing vacuum_mem? > > Yes.
Maybe Bill's thinking of the fsm settings and regular vacuums and the limitations on how many tuples can be reclaimed by regular vacuuming being tied to fsm settings? ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly