How to introspect autovacuum analyze settings - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Benedikt Grundmann
Subject How to introspect autovacuum analyze settings
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Responses Re: How to introspect autovacuum analyze settings  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
Re: How to introspect autovacuum analyze settings  (Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>)
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Hello all,

I have a quick question.  I feel like somewhere in section 23.1.6 there should be the answer but I couldn't find it yet.  Namely how can I query the database for total number of tuples inserted, updated, or deleted since the last ANALYZE?  pg_stat_user_tables.n_tup_{ins,upd,del,hot_upd} seems to not reset after an analyze[1].  But clearly the database has that knowledge somewhere persistent because otherwise how could autovacuum do its thing.  

Rationale for the question.  I have the strong suspicion that for some of our bigger tables autovacuum analyze is not hitting frequently enough (even so we already much more aggressive settings than the default).  So I want to set some custom settings for those tables.  But rather than doing it manually for the one table I found I would much rather write a query (ideally one taking any existing per table settings into account) that tells me likely candidates for tweaking.  But so far I fail to even get the relevant data.

Cheers,

Bene

[1] At least it didn't when I just run analyze on a table explicitly. 

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