Vacuum Tuning Question

From: Murthy Nunna <mnunna(at)fnal(dot)gov>
To: "pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Vacuum Tuning Question
Date: 2023-05-19 15:35:57
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Hi,

I have a fairly large database (several TBs) where auto vacuum is enabled. My focus is to keep the datfrozenxid reasonably low and avoid manual vacuum. When I run following query, I see the percentage creeping up every day. Right after running vacuum manually on tables with large relfrozenxid the following query would return 7% on pgprd1 database but after 5 months it increased to 40%. So, eventually I am afraid I have to vacuum the tables manually which has its own problems like creating massive WALs in a short time etc. I would like to avoid manual vacuuming for this reason.

SELECT freez, txns, ROUND(100*(txns/freez::float)) AS perc, datname
FROM (SELECT foo.freez::int, age(datfrozenxid) AS txns, datname
FROM pg_database d JOIN (SELECT setting AS freez FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'autovacuum_freeze_max_age') AS foo
ON (true) WHERE d.datallowconn) AS foo2 ORDER BY 3 DESC, 4 ASC;

1500000000 | 599260139 | 40 | pgprd1
1500000000 | 50138249 | 3 | postgres
1500000000 | 50138249 | 3 | template1

Auto vacuum is working as I can see from logs it is repeatedly vacuuming same tables, but I don't see that as a problem because those are the tables that get updated/inserted continuously.
Following are the settings I have. I am wondering if there is a way autovacuum can keep the above "datfrozenxid" low and not keep increasing. Thank you ahead time for reading my post.

postgres=# select name, setting, unit from pg_settings where name like '%autovacuum%';
name | setting | unit
---------------------------------------+------------+------
autovacuum | on |
autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor | 0.1 |
autovacuum_analyze_threshold | 5000 |
autovacuum_freeze_max_age | 1500000000 |
autovacuum_max_workers | 5 |
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age | 400000000 |
autovacuum_naptime | 60 | s
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay | 2 | ms
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit | -1 |
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor | 0 |
autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold | 5000 |
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor | 0 |
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold | 5000 |
autovacuum_work_mem | -1 | kB
log_autovacuum_min_duration | 0 | ms
(15 rows)

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