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From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Why doesn't autovacuum/analyze run in due time after calling pg_stat_reset?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:47:05 -0500
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On 8/20/23 14:10, Rihad wrote:
> On 8/20/23 20:22, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>> On 8/18/23 22:35, Rihad wrote:
>>> On 8/17/23 13:01, rihad wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, all. After calling pg_stat_reset all statistics used by autovacuum 
>>>> got zeroed, and started accumulating from scratch. Some tables get 
>>>> acted upon properly, some don't.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Self-replying: yup, it seems there's an arbitrary limit of 100K of 
>>> n_live_tup after which autovac/analyze kicks in, or it seems so.
>>
>> To know rather then guess read:
>>
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/routine-vacuuming.html#AUTOVACUUM
>
>
> Sure, I read it before asking.
>
> Taking the first table in the list as an example:
>
>
>         relname          | n_live_tup | n_dead_tup |   left   | 
> n_mod_since_analyze |  left
> --------------------------+------------+------------+----------+---------------------+--------
> fooooooooooo             |      32781 |     240663 |  -234057 | 
>              513265 | -509937
>
>
> n_dead_tup (not the actual value, but some time after calling 
> pg_stat_reset) is much larger than 20% of n_live_tup 32781, and 
> n_mod_since_analyze is much larger than 10% of it.
>
> Yet it is kept unvacuumed and unanalyzed for a long time.
>
> autovacuum_(vacuum|analyze)_threshold is 50.
>
> What am I missing?
>

What are your autovacuum_(vacuum|analyze_*scale_factor* values?

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