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Subject: Re: Configure autovacuum
To: "Shenavai, Manuel" <manuel.shenavai@sap.com>,
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On 6/13/24 23:20, Shenavai, Manuel wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I would like to configure the autovacuum in a way that it runs very 
> frequently (i.e. after each update-statement). I tried the following 

Why?

What is the problem you are trying to solve?

> settings on my table:
> 
> alter table mytable set (autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor  = 0.0);
> 
> alter table mytable set (autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay  = 0.0);
> 
> alter table mytable set (autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit  = 10000);
> 
> alter table mytable set (autovacuum_vacuum_threshold  = 1);
> 
> I do a lot of updates on a single tuple and I would expect that the 
> autovacuum would start basically after each update (due to 
> autovacuum_vacuum_threshold=1). But the autovacuum is not running.
> 
> Is it possible to configure postgres to autovacuum very aggressively 
> (i.e. after each update-statement)?
> 
> Thanks in advance &
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Manuel
> 

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Adrian Klaver
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