From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Steven Flatt <steven.flatt@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Database-wide vacuum can take a long time, duringwhich tables are not being analyzed
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:49:18 +0000
Message-ID: <1162464559.3587.291.camel@silverbirch.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <357fa7590611011115q748ddce9qa6cf570ec2f15348@mail.gmail.com>
References: <357fa7590611011115q748ddce9qa6cf570ec2f15348@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 14:15 -0500, Steven Flatt wrote:
> Here is a potential problem with the auto-vacuum daemon, and I'm
> wondering if anyone has considered this. To avoid transaction ID
> wraparound, the auto-vacuum daemon will periodically determine that it
> needs to do a DB-wide vacuum, which takes a long time. On our system,
> it is on the order of a couple of weeks. (The system is very busy and
> there is a lot of I/O going on pretty much 24/7). During this period
> of time, there is nothing to automatically analyze any of the tables,
> leading to further performance problems. What are your thoughts on
> having the DB-wide vacuum running on a separate thread so that the
> daemon can concurrently wake up and take care of analyzing tables?
Yes, do it.
Every couple of weeks implies a transaction rate of ~~500tps, so I'd be
interested to hear more about your system.
--
Simon Riggs
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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