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From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Default autovacuum settings too conservative
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:15:16 -0500
Message-ID: <60mzh4i16z.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> (raw)
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matthew@zeut.net ("Matthew T. O'Connor") writes:
> I think the default settings should be designed to minimize the
> impact autovacuum has on the system while preventing the system from
> ever getting wildly bloated (also protect xid wraparound, but that
> doesn't have anything to do with the thresholds).

That would suggest setting the "base threshold"
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold relatively low, and the "scale factor"
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor fairly high.
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