From: Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Auto-Vacuum in 8.1 was ineffective for me. 8.2 may work better?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:28:34 -0500
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Mark Stosberg wrote:
>> When I upgraded a busy database system to PostgreSQL 8.1, I was excited
>> about AutoVacuum, and promptly enabled it, and turned off the daily
>> vacuum process.
>>
>> (
>> I set the following, as well as the option to enable auto vacuuming
>> stats_start_collector = true
>> stats_row_level = true
>> )
>>
>> I could see in the logs that related activity was happening, but within
>> a few days, the performance became horrible, and enabling the regular
>> vacuum fixed it.
>>
>> Eventually autovacuum was completely disabled.
>
> This has been tracked down to a bug in 8.1's Windows port. See
> http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/index.php?/archives/134-8.1-on-win32-pgstat-and-autovacuum.ht...
Thanks for the response Alvaro. This would have been on FreeBSD.
Let me ask the question a different way: Is simply setting the two
values plus enabling autovacuuming generally enough, or is further
tweaking common place?
Perhaps I'll give it another tree when we upgrade to 8.2.
Mark
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