On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:47:21PM +0200, Mariel Cherkassky wrote:
> Those settings helped but the table still grey very much. I wrote a script
> that monitored some metadata about the table (pg_stat_all_tables,count(*)
> from orig and toasted table). I let the system monitor the table for a week
> and I found out the next info :
> Autovacuum was running great during the whole week and whenever it reached
> 10k records in the toasted table it started vacuuming the table. *However,
> The db grew dramatically during a period of 7 hours in a specific day. In
> those 7 hours the table contained more then 10k (and kept increasing) but
> the autovacuum didnt vacuum the table*. I saw that during those 7 hours
> autovacuum didnt run and as a result of that the table grew to its max
> size(the current size).
Does pg_stat_all_tables show that the table ought to have been vacuumed ?
SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sys_tables WHERE relid='pg_toast.pg_toast_123456'::regclass;
Compare with relpages, reltuple FROM pg_class
What postgres version ?
Justin
