Re: Autovacuum of pg_database

Dne 5.5.2016 v 17:16 Ondřej Světlík napsal(a):
> Hello again,
>
> we have another strange problem with autovacuum. The process goes well
> until it reaches the table pg_database (in some databases, not all),
> then it loops over it forever (until I run vacuum full analyze on that
> table, simple vacuum doesn't help):
>
> 2016-05-05 17:13:33 CEST 34818LOG: automatic vacuum of table
> "somedatabase.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
> pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
> tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
> buffer usage: 87 hits, 0 misses, 0 dirtied
> avg read rate: 0.000 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.000 MB/s
> system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec
> 2016-05-05 17:13:33 CEST 34819LOG: automatic vacuum of table
> "somedatabase.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
> pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
> tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
> buffer usage: 87 hits, 0 misses, 0 dirtied
> avg read rate: 0.000 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.000 MB/s
> system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec
> 2016-05-05 17:13:33 CEST 34820LOG: automatic vacuum of table
> "somedatabase.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
> pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
> tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
> buffer usage: 87 hits, 0 misses, 0 dirtied
> avg read rate: 0.000 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.000 MB/s
> system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec
> 2016-05-05 17:13:34 CEST 34821LOG: automatic vacuum of table
> "somedatabase.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
> pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
> tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
> buffer usage: 87 hits, 0 misses, 0 dirtied
> avg read rate: 0.000 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.000 MB/s
> system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.00 sec
>
> Not sure if it's a bug or I'm doing something wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ondřej

Another part of log shows, that the process tries pg_database twice,
than it does one other table and than back to pg_database for the rest
of our days:

2016-05-05 17:16:56 CEST 36675LOG: automatic vacuum of table
"someotherdb.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
buffer usage: 36 hits, 50 misses, 2 dirtied
avg read rate: 3.277 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.131 MB/s
system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.11 sec
2016-05-05 17:16:56 CEST 36676LOG: automatic vacuum of table
"someotherdb.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
buffer usage: 68 hits, 18 misses, 0 dirtied
avg read rate: 2.563 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.000 MB/s
system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.05 sec
2016-05-05 17:16:56 CEST 36674LOG: automatic vacuum of table
"someotherdb.pg_toast.pg_toast_2618": index scans: 1
pages: 58 removed, 50 remain
tuples: 141 removed, 219 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
buffer usage: 151 hits, 192 misses, 73 dirtied
avg read rate: 2.728 MB/s, avg write rate: 1.037 MB/s
system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.54 sec
2016-05-05 17:16:56 CEST 36677LOG: automatic vacuum of table
"someotherdb.pg_catalog.pg_database": index scans: 0
pages: 0 removed, 233 remain
tuples: 0 removed, 5817 remain, 0 are dead but not yet removable
buffer usage: 86 hits, 0 misses, 0 dirtied
avg read rate: 0.000 MB/s, avg write rate: 0.000 MB/s
system usage: CPU 0.00s/0.00u sec elapsed 0.01 sec

Ondřej