Re: Autovacuum on by default? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: Autovacuum on by default?
Date
Msg-id 002301c6c782$1b92cfc0$0202fea9@aus.pervasive.com
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In response to Re: Autovacuum on by default?  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
Responses Re: Autovacuum on by default?
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 11:08:49AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> "Jim C. Nasby" <jim@nasby.net> writes:
>>> If there's a bunch of activity on a table but stats are reset
>>> before a vacuum is run on it and then a vacuum is run, the user
>>> will still be left thinking that the table needs to be vacuumed.
>> 
>> Except that autovac *won't* vacuum it if the stats have been reset.
>> So I'm not seeing that there's really a problem in practice.
> 
> IIRC the stats also include info about regular (manual) vacuums, so
> the above scenario still applies.

They do.  The stats patch as applied captures both autovacuum and manual
vacuum
as well as analyze (both from the Autovacuum daemon and manual).



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