Re: Postgres 7.4 and vacuum_cost_delay.

Thanks.

My first check was of course a grep/search of the postgres.conf, next it was
a complete source grep for vacuum_cost_delay.

I've come to the conclusion I need to simply start tracking all transactions
and determining a cost/performance for the larger and frequently updated
tables without the benefit and penalty of pg_statio.

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim C. Nasby [mailto:jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:39 PM
To: Chris Mckenzie
Cc: 'pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org'
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 7.4 and vacuum_cost_delay.

show all and grep are your friend. From my laptop with 8.1:

decibel(at)phonebook(dot)1[16:36]~:4%psql -tc 'show all' | grep
vacuum_cost_delay|tr -s ' ' autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay | -1 | Vacuum cost
delay in milliseconds, for autovacuum. vacuum_cost_delay | 0 | Vacuum cost
delay in milliseconds. decibel(at)phonebook(dot)1[16:37]~:5%

I don't have a 7.4 copy around, but you can just check it yourself.

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:40:41PM -0400, Chris Mckenzie wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I've got a quick and stupid question: Does Postgres 7.4 (7.x) support
> vacuum_cost_delay?
>
> For all my googles and documentation reading I've determined it's not
> supported, only because I can't find a 7.x doc or forum post claiming
> otherwise.
>
> Upgrading to 8.x is out of the question, but I still need to employ
> something to auto-vacuum a large and active database (possibly more
> than once a day) in a manner that wouldn't affect load at the wrong
> time.
>
> If I could combine pg_autovacuum with vacuum_cost_delay I could
> potentially have a solution. (barring some performance testing)
>
> The only problem with pg_autovacuum is the need for pg_statio, which
> itself will reduce performance at all times.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Chris
>
>
>

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