Bill, > As a quick fix, since we're upgrading to 7.4.2 in a few weeks anyhow > (which includes pg_autovacuum), I've simply set up an hourly vacuum on > this table. It only takes ~4 seconds to execute when kept up on an > hourly basis. Is there any penalty to vacuuming too frequently, other > than the time wasted in an unnecessary vacuum operation?
Nope, no penalty other than the I/O and CPU load while vacuuming. If you have a lot of transactions involving serial writes to many tables, sometimes you can get into a deadlock situation, which is annoying, but I wouldn't assume this to be a problem until it crops up. -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly