Re: AW: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: AW: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem
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Msg-id 28815.990461187@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to AW: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem  (Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at>)
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB  <ZeugswetterA@wien.spardat.at> writes:
> Tom: If your ratio of physical pages vs WAL records is so bad, the config
> should simply be changes to do fewer checkpoints (say every 20 min like a 
> typical Informix setup).

I was using the default configuration.  What caused the problem was
probably not so much the standard 5-minute time-interval-driven
checkpoints, as it was the standard every-3-WAL-segments checkpoints.
Possibly we ought to increase that number?
        regards, tom lane


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