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Re: Remove recommendation for nightly VACUUM

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-06-27T15:35:35Z
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 1:32 AM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> Looking at the Git history, most of that paragraph is from a time
>> when autovacuum did not yet exist or was much less reliable than it
>> is now.  So I suggest removing all that and pointing to autovacuum
>> instead, as done in the attached patch.
>
>
> Agred. A nightly vacuum is definitely not something for "most people" anymore.

+1.

The VACUUM documentation needs to be totally overhauled. This is a start.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

Commits

  1. Remove outdated recommendation for manual VACUUM