On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:17:41 +0530,
Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@persistent.co.in> wrote:
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> Idea of autovacuum is to reduce load on vacuum full. If you set shared_buffers
> higher and FSM properly for he update/delete load, autovacuum is expected to
> catch most of the dead tuples in shared cache only. If it is successful in
> doubling the frequency on vacuum full, that's a big win, isn't it?
If you run a normal vacuum often enough, you shouldn't need to regularly
run vacuum full.