Re: Table : Bloat grow high - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Laurenz Albe
Subject Re: Table : Bloat grow high
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Msg-id 17e33debb7ec47f662cb7281718d8446544d29f0.camel@cybertec.at
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In response to Table : Bloat grow high  (Alexis Zapata <alexise23@hotmail.com>)
Responses Re: Table : Bloat grow high  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
RE: Table : Bloat grow high  (Alexis Zapata <alexise23@hotmail.com>)
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On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 17:09 +0000, Alexis Zapata wrote:
> In postgresql 13.5 I have a table (size 3.1 GB) and in this table occurs near to
> 200 updates per second, after 2 days the size table is 7 GB and bloat grow to 45% and 
>  the query operations are degraded. vacuum runs every 5 seconds over this. but the
> bloat growth continues, to solve the 
> problem quickly, we have made a replica of the table with a trigger, then a copy
> of the data and in a 
> transaction we rename the table, but it would not be the best solution.
> Some suggestion about stop this size increase or parameter to setting up?

You'd be most happy with HOT updates.  Make sure that there is no index on any of
the columns you update, and change the table to have a "fillfactor" less than
100.  Then you can get HOT updates which don't require VACUUM for cleaning up.

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/hot-updates-in-postgresql-for-better-performance/

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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