On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 08:47, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> Markus Schaber <schabi 'at' logix-tt.com> writes:
>
> > > VACUUM ANALYZE is normally run overnight (each night). Is it not
> > > regular enough? There can be hundreds of thousands of statements
> > > a day.
> >
> > Which PostgreSQL version are you using? Maybe you should consider
> > autovacuum (which is a contrib module at least since 7.4, and included
> > in the server since 8.1). If you think that vacuum during working hours
> > puts too much load on your server, there are options to tweak that, at
> > least in 8.1.
>
> Ok, thanks. Unfortunately production insists on sticking on 7.4.5
> for the moment :/
There are known data loss bugs in that version. You should at least
make them update to 7.4.13. Running 7.4.5 instead of 7.4.13 is a bad
decision. Note that there is no need for migrating your data or any of
that with an update within the same major / minor version. As long as
the first two numbers don't change, it's a very simple and fast upgrade.
NOT doing it is negligent.