Re: New criteria for autovacuum

From: Sami Imseih <samimseih(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Konstantin Knizhnik <knizhnik(at)garret(dot)ru>, Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New criteria for autovacuum
Date: 2025-04-07 02:18:21
Message-ID: CAA5RZ0sj5DHJASgKbyQFsA6msEb1JfRcWfr7=ozOZ-bG2AmPnw@mail.gmail.com
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> I wasn't thinking about adding a new VM setting functionality to index
> only scan in particular. heapam_index_fetch_tuple() already calls
> heap_page_prune_opt() which will do pruning under certain conditions.
> I was thinking that we start updating the VM after pruning in the
> on-access case too (not just when pruning is invoked by vacuum).

I think this will need to be careful when the workload is constantly updating
and reading the same pages, as we may end up with a continuous cycle of
updates clearing the visibility-map and selects setting the visibility-map.
this may degrade the select workloads, maybe?

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Sami Imseih
Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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