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From: Guillaume Lelarge <[email protected]>
To: Franjo Stipanovic <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Different Autovacuum Settings on Master and Replica in Streaming Replication
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:34:31 +0100
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Hi,

Le ven. 17 janv. 2025 à 15:38, Franjo Stipanovic <[email protected]> a
écrit :

> Question regarding autovacuum settings in a PostgreSQL streaming
> replication setup. Specifically, I am curious about whether it is possible
> (and advisable) to have different values for the following settings on the
> master and replica databases:
> - autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor
> - autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor
>
> Can the above settings be configured differently on the master and replica
> databases in a streaming replication setup? I just tested this on AWS RDS
> Postgres.
>

They could but it doesn't matter. VACUUM and ANALYZE aren't executed on
replicas because they are write operations, and you can't write on replicas.


> How would those different settings interact with replication, for example,
> if I apply change on master, would it be replicated to replica and override
> my replica setting?
>
Changes on the postgresq.conf file aren't replicated, but ALTER TABLE ...
(SET autovacuum...) are.

> I was expecting that this is not possible in streaming replication, only
> in logical replication.
>

You're right, it's not possible.


-- 
Guillaume.


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