> There are two issues here : ease-of-use for admin and basic users. > > On for former point, admin ease-of-use, A little story a few month ago. > > I succeeded in advising production people here to switch some applications > from a mysql database, which was working perfectly, to a postgres > database. A few weeks later, the performances were desastrous. 30 seconds > to get an answer to a simple select on a 1500 entries tables. After > investigation, the problems were: > > - no vacuum, although there were daily "DELETE FROM tables;" > to empty all the data and reload from another source. > > - no analyze, because the admin did not know about it.
My goal is to have pg_autovacuum integrated into the backend for 7.5. I don't know if it will default to being turned on or off, I'm sure that will be a discussion, but if it is defaulted to on, then this whole problem of having to train newbies about vacuum should just go away. Matthew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html