Re: Autovacuum of independent tables

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Holzman <michaelholzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org >> PG-General Mailing List" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum of independent tables
Date: 2020-09-08 09:27:44
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCH_P5YJZaLad1kTw-boGd=PGhY73BR=awLqpGtw3=0zg@mail.gmail.com
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út 8. 9. 2020 v 10:42 odesílatel Michael Holzman <michaelholzman(at)gmail(dot)com>
napsal:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 11:28 AM Michael Paquier wrote:
>
>>
>> This is called MVCC, which applies to a session as a whole. The point
>> here is that even if your application knows that only tableA is used
>> by a given transaction, Postgres cannot know that, as it could be
>> possible that data from tableB is needed in this same transaction, so
>> old versions of the rows from tableB matching with the snapshot hold
>> by this long-running transaction still have to be around.
>>
>> Yes, I thought so. I just hoped there may be a workaround decoupling the
> tables.
> Thanks.
>

You can try to reduce length of transactions, if possible.

Regards

Pavel

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> Regards,
> Michael Holzman
>

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