From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: jody brownell <jody.brownell@q1labs.com>
Cc: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>
Cc: postgres performance list <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:11:50 -0500
Message-ID: <20060621221150.GN93655@pervasive.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606211641.45674.jody.brownell@q1labs.com>
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On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 04:41:45PM -0300, jody brownell wrote:
> BTW, in production with a similar load - autovacuum with default out of the box
> settings seems to work quite well....
>
> I double checked this earlier today.
So what's different between production and the machine with the problem?
The issue with autovac is that it will only vacuum one table at a time,
so if it's off vacuuming some other table for a long period of time it
won't be touching this table, which will be a problem. Now, if that's
actually what's happening...
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