Re: New GUC autovacuum_max_threshold ? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Frédéric Yhuel
Subject Re: New GUC autovacuum_max_threshold ?
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Msg-id 6a2ac9b7-6535-4bb1-8274-0647f7c31c82@dalibo.com
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In response to Re: New GUC autovacuum_max_threshold ?  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On 8/7/24 23:39, Nathan Bossart wrote:
> I've attached a new patch to show roughly what I think this new GUC should
> look like.  I'm hoping this sparks more discussion, if nothing else.
>

Thank you. FWIW, I would prefer a sub-linear growth, so maybe something 
like this:

vacthresh = Min(vac_base_thresh + vac_scale_factor * reltuples, 
vac_base_thresh + vac_scale_factor * pow(reltuples, 0.7) * 100);

This would give :

* 386M (instead of 5.1 billion currently) for a 25.6 billion tuples table ;
* 77M for a 2.56 billion tuples table (Robert's example) ;
* 15M (instead of 51M currently) for a 256M tuples table ;
* 3M (instead of 5M currently) for a 25.6M tuples table.

The other advantage is that you don't need another GUC.

> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:36:42PM +0200, Frédéric Yhuel wrote:
>> By the way, I wonder if there were any off-list discussions after Robert's
>> conference at PGConf.dev (and I'm waiting for the video of the conf).
> 
> I don't recall any discussions about this idea, but Robert did briefly
> mention it in his talk [0].
> 
> [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTD-Twpvac
> 

Very interesting, thanks!



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