>> Also, locking while it does its work.
> 
> Eh?

Even if we're doing lazy vacuum, we have to lock a few pages at a time
of each table.  This does result in response time delays on the current
workload, which can be quite bad if it's a highly contended table already.

-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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