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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
From:       Kaare Rasmussen <kar () webline ! dk>
Date:       2001-05-19 8:38:29
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> Second: if VACUUM can run in the background, then there's no reason not
> to run it fairly frequently.  In fact, it could become an automatically
> scheduled activity like CHECKPOINT is now, or perhaps even a continuously
> running daemon (which was the original conception of it at Berkeley, BTW).

Maybe it's obvious, but I'd like to mention that you need some way of setting 
priority. If it's a daemon, or a process, you an nice it. If not, you need to 
implement something by yourself.

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