Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>
To: jody brownell <jody(dot)brownell(at)q1labs(dot)com>
Cc: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, postgres performance list <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat
Date: 2006-06-21 22:11:50
Message-ID: 20060621221150.GN93655@pervasive.com
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:41:45PM -0300, jody brownell wrote:
> BTW, in production with a similar load - autovacuum with default out of the box
> settings seems to work quite well....
>
> I double checked this earlier today.

So what's different between production and the machine with the problem?

The issue with autovac is that it will only vacuum one table at a time,
so if it's off vacuuming some other table for a long period of time it
won't be touching this table, which will be a problem. Now, if that's
actually what's happening...
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