Should I add a TODO to warn if FSM values are too small? Is that doable?
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> Moved to -hackers where this belongs :)
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> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Justin Clift wrote:
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> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> Yup. 20000 < 23072, so you're losing some proportion of FSM entries.
> >> What's worse, the FSM relation table is maxed out (1000 = 1000) which
> >> suggests that there are relations not being tracked at all; you have
> >> no idea how much space is getting leaked in those.
> >>
> >> You can determine the number of relations potentially needing FSM
> >> entries by
> >> select count(*) from pg_class where relkind in ('r','i','t');
> >> --- sum over all databases in the cluster to get the right result.
> >>
> >> Once you've fixed max_fsm_relations, do vacuums in all databases, and
> >> then vacuum verbose should give you a usable lower bound for
> >> max_fsm_pages.
> >
> > Would making max_fsm_relations and max_fsm_pages dynamically update
> > themselves whilst PostgreSQL runs be useful? Sounds like they're the
> > kind of things that many people would receive maximum benefit if
> > PostgreSQL altered these settings as needed itself.
>
> I'm not sure if I like this one too much ... but it would be nice if
> something like this triggered a warning in the logs, maybe a feature of
> pg_autovacuum itself?
>
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