On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:51:07PM +0800, wenhui qiu wrote:
>> 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.
> Argee ,We just need to change the calculation formula,But I prefer this
> formula because it calculates a smoother value.
>
> vacthresh = (float4) fmin(vac_base_thresh + vac_scale_factor *
> reltuples,vac_base_thresh
> + vac_scale_factor * log2(reltuples) * 10000);
> or
> vacthresh = (float4) fmin(vac_base_thresh + (vac_scale_factor * reltuples)
> , sqrt(1000.0 * reltuples));
I apologize for the curt response, but I don't understand how we could
decide which of these three complicated formulas to use, let alone how we
could expect users to reason about the behavior.
--
nathan
