Re: pg_autovacuum not having enough suction ? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

I would rather keep this on list since other people can chime in.

Otto Blomqvist wrote:

>It does not seem to be a Stats collector problem.
>
>   oid   | relname | relnamespace | relpages | relisshared | reltuples |
>schemaname | n_tup_ins | n_tup_upd | n_tup_del
>---------+---------+--------------+----------+-------------+-----------+----
>--------+-----------+-----------+-----------
> 9384219 | file_92 |         2200 |     8423 | f           |     49837 |
>public     |    158176 |    318527 |    158176
>(1 row)
>
>I insert 50000 records
>
>secom=# select createfile_92records(1, 50000);    <--- this is a pg script
>that inserts records  1 threw 50000.
> createfile_92records
>----------------------
>                    0
>
>
>   oid   | relname | relnamespace | relpages | relisshared | reltuples |
>schemaname | n_tup_ins | n_tup_upd | n_tup_del
>---------+---------+--------------+----------+-------------+-----------+----
>--------+-----------+-----------+-----------
> 9384219 | file_92 |         2200 |     8423 | f           |     49837 |
>public     |    208179 |    318932 |    158377
>(1 row)
>
>reltuples does not change ? Hmm. n_tup_ins looks fine.
>
>

That is expected, reltuples only gets updated by a vacuum or an analyze.

>This table is basically a queue full of records waiting to get transfered
>over from our 68030 system to the PG database. The records are then moved
>into folders (using a trigger) like file_92_myy depending on what month the
>record was created on the 68030. During normal operations there should not
>be more than 10 records at a time in the table, although during the course
>of a day a normal system will get about 50k records. I create 50000 records
>to simulate incoming traffic, since we don't have much traffic in the test
>lab.
>
>After a few hours we have
>
>secom=# select count(*) from file_92;
> count
>-------
> 42072
>
>So we have sent over approx 8000 Records.
>
>   oid   | relname | relnamespace | relpages | relisshared | reltuples |
>schemaname | n_tup_ins | n_tup_upd | n_tup_del
>---------+---------+--------------+----------+-------------+-----------+----
>--------+-----------+-----------+-----------
> 9384219 | file_92 |         2200 |     8423 | f           |     49837 |
>public     |    208218 |    334521 |    166152
>(1 row)
>
>
>n_tup_upd: 318932 + (50000-42072)*2 = 334788 pretty close.   (Each record
>gets updated twice, then moved)
>n_tup_del: 158377 + (50000-42072) = 166305 pretty close. (there are also
>minor background traffic going on)
>
>
>I could send over the full vacuum verbose capture as well as the autovacuum
>capture if that is of interest.
>

That might be helpful.  I don't see a stats system problem here, but I
also haven't heard of any autovac problems recently, so this might be
something new.

Thanks,

Matthew O'Connor