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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Rajesh Kumar <rajeshkumar.dba09@gmail.com>
To: Pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Table health
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2023 08:52:41 +0200
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On Tue, 2023-10-17 at 23:23 +0530, Rajesh Kumar wrote:
> I have been asked to check table health of specific big table.
> 
> What are list of things I have to check?

Look at pg_stat_all_tables to see if the number of dead tuples
is excessive and if autovacuum and autoanalyze are running as
they should.

Look at pg_class to see if "relfrozenxid" and "relminmxid" are
far from the danger zone.

Run the function pgstattuple_approx() to see if the table is bloated.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe





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