On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:02 AM Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:31 AM Justin King <kingpin867(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:40 PM Michael Lewis <mlewis(at)entrata(dot)com> wrote:
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>> > Do you have default fillfactor set on this table? If not, I would wonder if reducing it to 50% or even 20% would allow many more HOT updates that would reduce bloat.
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>> I don't believe we have a default fillfactor, but I'm still trying to
>> understand why autovacs would completely stop -- that seems like a
>> bug. Especially since there was no change between PG10 and PG12 and
>> this problem never existed there.
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> Is there any reason to not schedule vacuum freeze for each db daily? Just curious.
No, not really -- it just feels like a bandaid for something that
should (and was) working already. It is possible where I'm headed,
but I just thought I'd reach out to the community to see if anyone has
seen or could think of a reason why this might have started by moving
from PG10 > PG12 and whether it was some possible regression.