Re: autovacuum not working?

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>
To: Medora Schauer <mschauer(at)fairfield(dot)com>
Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: autovacuum not working?
Date: 2006-10-09 21:26:15
Message-ID: 20061009212615.GN72517@nasby.net
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On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:27:30AM -0500, Medora Schauer wrote:
> > From your attached config file:
> >
> > #autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 1000 # min # of tuple updates before
> > # vacuum
> >
>
> Yup, that was it.

Actually, not quite.

Vacuum will update relpages and reltuples, but it won't update other
stats. That's what analyze does (autovacuum_analyze_threshold). By
default, that's set to 500; I'll typically drop it to 200 or so (keep in
mind that analyze is much cheaper than vacuum).
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Jim Nasby jim(at)nasby(dot)net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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