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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Rick <richard.branton@ca.com>
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Subject: Re: autovacuum strategy / parameters
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Rick wrote:

> So, in a large table, the scale_factor is the dominant term. In a
> small
> table, the threshold is the dominant term. But both are taken into
> account.

Correct.

> The default values are set for small tables; it is not being run for
> large tables.

So decrease the scale factor and leave threshold alone.

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