Re: Why doesn't autovacuum/analyze run in due time after calling pg_stat_reset? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Rihad
Subject Re: Why doesn't autovacuum/analyze run in due time after calling pg_stat_reset?
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Msg-id 329abf6c-2165-f410-717f-c20b3dd0a3d7@gmail.com
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In response to Re: Why doesn't autovacuum/analyze run in due time after calling pg_stat_reset?  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Responses Re: Why doesn't autovacuum/analyze run in due time after calling pg_stat_reset?
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On 8/21/23 20:17, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 8/21/23 09:09, Rihad wrote:
>> On 8/21/23 20:00, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
>
>> Thanks for the detailed reply, no tables have custom settings.
>>
>> I need to make it clear once again that all autovac/analyze work as 
>> expected when n_live_tup matches reality, i.e. when analyze has been 
>> run on them since last reset.
>>
>> A way to fix this is to simply analyze the whole database. Before 
>> doing that, while n_live_tup starts from basically 0 and grows based 
>> on DB activity, these usual calculations of 10-20% table size for 
>> vacuum/analyze don't work. They don't trigger autovac for most 
>> tables, or do it much much later.
>>
>
> You still have not said or shown whether the other autovacuum settings 
> are the default values or not. Assuming they are, then the only other 
> explanation I can come up with is that there is a process or processes 
> that are creating long running open transactions that prevent 
> autovacuum from running on the affected tables.
>

Sorry, they are all as per default, commented out in the config.

There are no long running queries, otherwise they wouldn't be 
vacuumed/analyzed in due time after running first manual analyze, which 
updates n_live_tup to match reltuples.




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