Problem with autovacuum and pg_autovacuum - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Subject Problem with autovacuum and pg_autovacuum
Date
Msg-id 20070704234253.7f7c8af4.adsmail@wars-nicht.de
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Responses Re: Problem with autovacuum and pg_autovacuum
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Hello,

we got a small problem with auto_vacuum: since we have some big tables
which have heavy read/write access, we tried to exclude this tables
from autovacuum:

database1=# select vacrelid,enabled,(select relname from pg_class where oid=vacrelid) as relname from pg_autovacuum;
 vacrelid | enabled |       relname
----------+---------+----------------------
    42041 | f       | guestbook
    42344 | f       | forum_threads
    42406 | f       | forum_thread_entries
    41937 | f       | user_online
    42255 | f       | forum_fora
    41570 | f       | users
    41694 | f       | user_data
(7 rows)


Now it seems, that autovacuum is processing exactly this tables:

2007-07-04 22:37:05 CEST DEBUG: autovacuum: processing database "database1"
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE users
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE user_stats
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE guestbook
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE forum_fora
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE forum_threads
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE forum_thread_entries
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE user_data
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: autovac: will VACUUM ANALYZE user_online
2007-07-04 22:37:06 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.users"
2007-07-04 22:38:39 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_41570"
2007-07-04 22:38:47 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.user_stats"
2007-07-04 22:49:06 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_43602"
2007-07-04 22:51:51 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.guestbook"
2007-07-04 23:00:38 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_42041"
2007-07-04 23:00:43 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.forum_fora"
2007-07-04 23:00:50 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_42255"
2007-07-04 23:00:50 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.forum_threads"
2007-07-04 23:01:06 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.forum_thread_entries"
2007-07-04 23:01:50 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_42406"
2007-07-04 23:01:54 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.user_data"
2007-07-04 23:05:36 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "pg_toast.pg_toast_41694"
2007-07-04 23:05:45 CEST DEBUG: vacuuming "schema1.user_online"

database1=# select version();
                                                     version
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
(1 row)

Any idea, what's wrong here?


Kind regards

--
                Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
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 (Ferenc Mantfeld)

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