Re: autovacuum strategy / parameters - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: autovacuum strategy / parameters
Date
Msg-id 20100426165822.GC3963@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: autovacuum strategy / parameters  (Rick <richard.branton@ca.com>)
List pgsql-performance
Rick wrote:

> So, in a large table, the scale_factor is the dominant term. In a
> small
> table, the threshold is the dominant term. But both are taken into
> account.

Correct.

> The default values are set for small tables; it is not being run for
> large tables.

So decrease the scale factor and leave threshold alone.

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