Re: Tooling for per table autovacuum tuning - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Why don't you just monitor pg_stat_user_tables.n_dead_tup on a  regular basis and increase autovacuum aggressiveness based on that at the global level (postgresql.conf - thresholds) or set autovacuum parms at the table level for customized cases.

Regards,
Michael Vitale


Joseph Hammerman wrote on 3/12/2023 4:34 PM:

Hi all,

Apologies for any confusion I may have caused. What I am imagining is per table tuning that buckets the tables based on their relative sizes.

Something like:

Up to 1Gb - Small

Up to 4Gb - Medium

Up to 8Gb - L

Bigger - XL

And an accordant autovacuum_scale_factor associated with each size.

The motivation for this is to make sure large tables get regularly vacuumed.

I hope that clears thing up!

Joe

On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:56 AM Wolfgang Wilhelm <wolfgang20121964@yahoo.de> wrote:

I think Mr Hammerman is referring to T-shirts for user stories.

But even when I'm right I don't get what is meant with that. I don't get what Joe means with "autovacuuming profiles per table". Joe, can you elaborate on that?

Yours

Wolfgang

Am Sonntag, 12. März 2023 um 14:47:42 MEZ hat Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> Folgendes geschrieben:

On Sat, 2023-03-11 at 10:49 -0800, Joseph Hammerman wrote:

> I would like to define t-shirt sizes and have an autovacuuming profile associated with each t-shirt size.
>
> Is there any tooling out there that assists in the execution side of this? Or are all of you rolling your own?

Isn't that question 21 days early?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

Regards,

Michael Vitale

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