pgsql: Trigger more frequent autovacuums with relallfrozen

From: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: pgsql: Trigger more frequent autovacuums with relallfrozen
Date: 2025-03-03 19:45:31
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Trigger more frequent autovacuums with relallfrozen

Calculate the insert threshold for triggering an autovacuum of a
relation based on the number of unfrozen pages.

By only considering the unfrozen portion of the table when calculating
how many tuples to add to the insert threshold, we can trigger more
frequent vacuums of insert-heavy tables. This increases the chances of
vacuuming those pages when they still reside in shared buffers

This also increases the number of autovacuums triggered by tuples
inserted and not by wraparound risk. We prefer to freeze these pages
during insert-triggered autovacuums, as anti-wraparound vacuums are not
automatically canceled by conflicting lock requests.

We calculate the unfrozen percentage of the table using the recently
added (99f8f3fbbc8f) relallfrozen column of pg_class.

Author: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Sabino Mullane <htamfids(at)gmail(dot)com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Treat <rob(at)xzilla(dot)net>
Reviewed-by: wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx(at)gmail(dot)com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/CAAKRu_aj-P7YyBz_cPNwztz6ohP%2BvWis%3Diz3YcomkB3NpYA--w%40mail.gmail.com

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master

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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/06eae9e6218ab2acf64ea497bad0360e4c90e32d

Modified Files
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doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml | 7 ++++---
doc/src/sgml/config.sgml | 15 +++++++--------
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
src/backend/utils/misc/postgresql.conf.sample | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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