Richard Yen <richyen@iparadigms.com> writes:
> My concern is that--as in the original post--there were moments where 129 WAL files were generated in one minute. Is
itplausible that this autovacuum could be responsible for this?
That's not a particularly surprising WAL creation rate for a busy
database. I wouldn't expect autovacuum to cause it by itself, but
that's true only because autovacuum processing is typically throttled
by autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay. Perhaps you had that set to zero?
regards, tom lane
