If you really want to know, read the mountains of (mostly) junk that
have been written about replacing VACUUM in pgsql-hackers. The short
answer (with apologies to Winston Churchill) is that VACUUM is the worst
solution, except for all the others that have been suggested.
The lesser of 50 evils? ;)
Joshua D. Drake
regards, tom lane
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