Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?

From: rihad <rihad(at)mail(dot)ru>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: When do vacuumed pages/tuples become available for reuse?
Date: 2019-04-11 15:44:04
Message-ID: c7d435c1-a6f6-d570-1698-b8791161d406@mail.ru
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On 04/11/2019 07:40 PM, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 10:28 AM rihad <rihad(at)mail(dot)ru
> <mailto:rihad(at)mail(dot)ru>> wrote:
>
>
> Yup, it's just that n_dead_tuples grows by several hundred
> thousand (the
> table sees much much more updates than inserts) and disk usage grows
> constantly between several hour long vacuum runs. Running vacuum full
> isn't an option.
>
>
> The disk usage doesn't reach a steady state after one or two
> autovacs?  Or it does, but you are just unhappy about the ratio
> between the steady state size and the theoretical fully packed size?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff

Since we dump&restore production DB daily into staging environment, the
difference in size (as reported by psql's \l+) is 11GB in a freshly
restored DB as opposed to 70GB in production.

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