Re: Auto-vacuum is not running in 9.1.12

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Cédric Villemain <cedric(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Haribabu Kommi <kommi(dot)haribabu(at)gmail(dot)com>, Prakash Itnal <prakash074(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, rasna(dot)t(at)nokia(dot)com, sandhya(dot)k_s(at)nokia(dot)com
Subject: Re: Auto-vacuum is not running in 9.1.12
Date: 2015-06-18 12:13:56
Message-ID: 20150618121356.GD133018@postgresql.org
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Cédric Villemain wrote:
>
>
> Le 17/06/2015 23:10, Alvaro Herrera a écrit :
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> launcher_determine_sleep() does have a minimum sleep time, and it seems
> >> like we could fairly cheaply guard against this kind of scenario by also
> >> enforcing a maximum sleep time (of say 5 or 10 minutes). Not quite
> >> convinced whether it's worth the trouble though.
> >
> > Yeah, the case is pretty weird and I'm not really sure that the server
> > ought to be expected to behave. But if this is actually the only part
> > of the server that misbehaves because of sudden gigantic time jumps, I
> > think it's fair to patch it. Here's a proposed patch.
>
> Does that still respect an autovacuum_naptime (GUC) greater than 5 minutes ?

Yes, sure. The launcher will wake up, see time-to-vacuum further away,
then continue sleeping.

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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