Re: Autovacuuming - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Gourish Singbal
Subject Re: Autovacuuming
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Msg-id 674d1f8a0604242303w15be5f2oe4ba806873d1984d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Autovacuuming  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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Thanks for the reply. we will be reviewing the settings soon.
Also have manually ran the database-wide vacuum on the 50GB database .  (for safety reasons). the transaction count is 1147399191. we plan to automate this process once a month or so.
 
Do we need to Disable the Auto-vacuum deamon when we manually run the database-wide vacuum command ?.
 
thanks in advance.

 
On 4/24/06, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:21:16AM +0530, Gourish Singbal wrote:
> The Age of the database is 1144759836 . We have enabled autovacuuming .
> The details are:-
> autovacuum = on
> autovacuum_naptime = 300
> autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 10000
> autovacuum_analyze_threshold = 5000
> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.3
> autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.3

Those settings are *really* conservative... I normally use 400, 200,
0.2, 0.1 respectively...

> Wanted to know when the auto-vacuum daemon will run an database-wide  vacuum
> call to avoid transaction ID wraparound failures.

IIRC it will do that somewhere between 2B and 4B transactions have
elapsed. The true answer lies somewhere in
src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c.
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