From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Tooling for per table autovacuum tuning
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 16:03:40 -0500
Message-ID: <886f6541-48d4-6b9b-c44a-1c2489c5f3fe@gmail.com> (raw)
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<5c0a6ab9ba801e0fa7c2217e49ce804837c64cf1.camel@cybertec.at>
<14072753.2216234.1678640212317@mail.yahoo.com>
<CAHs7QM_dDN3M=G0vEEi7V_wZaWmtJO5OK6ruh7bBfQ4BNo4QxQ@mail.gmail.com>
A giant table which is never updated (or deleted from) doesn't need to be
vacuumed.
That same giant table which isn't added to anymore doesn't need to be
analyzed, either.
On 3/12/23 15:34, Joseph Hammerman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies for any confusion I may have caused. What I am imagining is per
> table tuning that buckets the tables based on their relative sizes.
>
> Something like:
>
> Up to 1Gb - Small
> Up to 4Gb - Medium
> Up to 8Gb - L
> Bigger - XL
>
> And an accordant autovacuum_scale_factor associated with each size.
>
> The motivation for this is to make sure large tables get regularly vacuumed.
>
> I hope that clears thing up!
> Joe
>
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:56 AM Wolfgang Wilhelm
> <wolfgang20121964@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> I think Mr Hammerman is referring to T-shirts for user stories.
>
> But even when I'm right I don't get what is meant with that. I don't
> get what Joe means with "autovacuuming profiles per table". Joe, can
> you elaborate on that?
>
> Yours
> Wolfgang
>
> Am Sonntag, 12. März 2023 um 14:47:42 MEZ hat Laurenz Albe
> <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Folgendes geschrieben:
>
>
> On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 10:49 -0800, Joseph Hammerman wrote:
>
> > I would like to define t-shirt sizes and have an
> autovacuuming profile associated with each t-shirt size.
> >
> > Is there any tooling out there that assists in the execution side of
> this? Or are all of you rolling your own?
>
>
> Isn't that question 21 days early?
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>
>
>
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