Re: Autovacuum - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Guillaume Lelarge
Subject Re: Autovacuum
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Msg-id 481B29DF.9060706@lelarge.info
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In response to Autovacuum  (Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>)
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Glyn Astill a écrit :
> Using 8.3.1
>
> No matter what I try I've never seen any evidence that autovacuum runs on my system.
>
> I set
>
> autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 50
>
> Then run a process to do updates on a table, shouldn't autovacuum kick in after 50 updates?
>

Nope, it also depends on the number of rows of your table and on the
configuration of the autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor parameter.

You should also configure log_autovacuum_min_duration to 0 to see the
autovacuum operations.

Regards.


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