Re: Why do we let autovacuum give up?

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Mark Kirkwood <mark(dot)kirkwood(at)catalyst(dot)net(dot)nz>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Why do we let autovacuum give up?
Date: 2014-01-23 23:52:47
Message-ID: 20140123235247.GL7182@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-01-24 12:49:57 +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> autovacuum_max_workers = 4
> autovacuum_naptime = 10s
> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.1
> autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.1
> autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = 0ms
>
> Stops excessive bloat - clearly autovacuum *is* able to vacuum pg_attribute
> in this case. Back to drawing board for a test case.

Well, I think quite many people don't realize it might be necessary to
tune autovac on busy workloads. As it very well might be the case in
Josh's case.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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