Re: QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table versus QUERY: autovacuum:VACUUM table - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table versus QUERY: autovacuum:VACUUM table
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In response to QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table versus QUERY: autovacuum:VACUUM table  (Jason Ralph <jralph@affinitysolutions.com>)
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On 11/1/19 7:49 PM, Jason Ralph wrote:
> Hello list,
> I am trying to find out if the naming convention from autovacuum does what its command line equivalent does, or at
leastwhat I think it does.
 
> 
> QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table versus autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table.

The above are the same, I'm guessing you are referring to 1) and 2) below.

> 
> I have been getting my autovacuum tuned and I have the settings where I see 2 types of queries running now and doing
theirjobs. I know vacuum alone will mark dead tuples ready for use again, and analyze alone will update statistics for
thequery planner.
 
> 
> 1. QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table
> 2. QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM table
> 
> My question is do we need both?  Why wouldn't QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table perform both, I always thought
whenissuing VACUUM ANALYZE table it would do both. Why wouldn't we just want vacuum analyze to run?
 
> Or is QUERY: autovacuum: VACUUM ANALYZE table different from the command line and it only analyzes and QUERY:
autovacuum:VACUUM table only vacuums which would make sense.
 

See here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/routine-vacuuming.html#AUTOVACUUM

"Each worker process will check each table within its database and 
execute VACUUM and/or ANALYZE as needed"

In same section read sections on vacuum and analyze thresholds, which 
determine the 'and/or' above.

The commands are the same. Autovacuum is just a background process that 
calls the regular VACUUM/ANALYZE commands as needed.

> 
> 
> Thanks as always and hope this is clear.
> 
> 
> Jason Ralph
> 
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