Re: vacuuming problems continued

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> - in our env, clients occasionally hit max_connections. This is a
>> known and (sort of) desired pushback on load. However, that sometimes
>> knocks pg_autovacuum out.
>
> That is when you use:
>
> superuser_reserved_connections

Blush. Good point. Though, when we hit max_connections on 7.4.8 systems,
it's been a lemonade-from-lemons plus that vacuuming didn't fire up on top of
everything else :-)

>> - db server goes down for any reason: same problem.
>
> I believe you can use
> stats_reset_on_server_start = on

We do. The problem is not the loss of pg_stat_user_tables.(n_tup_ins,...)
It's the loss of pg_autovacuum's CountAtLastVacuum (and ...Analyze)
numbers, which are kept in process memory. Never considered patching
pg_autovacuum to just sleep and try again, rather than exit, on a failed
db connection.

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