Re: Cancelling of autovacuums considered harmful

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Cancelling of autovacuums considered harmful
Date: 2014-02-26 16:56:08
Message-ID: 20140226165608.GE4759@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Scott Marlowe escribió:
> As some of you folks know I work on some pretty beefy machines. Some
> of these machines don't see rest for months or days on end. And
> autovacuum keeps cancelling. I set it more aggressive, it still never
> finishes.

No matter how heavily updated, regular activity should not cause
autovacuum kills. Only heavier operations would do that (say ALTER
TABLE, etc).

> We've now had to schedule manual vacuums because autovac never
> finishes on large heavily updated tables.

> Is there some way to turn off the cancelling of autovacuums?

I don't think we have a setting for that.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services

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