Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum on a -mostly- r/o table

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Edoardo Ceccarelli <eddy(at)axa(dot)it>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] autovacuum on a -mostly- r/o table
Date: 2006-09-27 16:31:52
Message-ID: 1159374712.46586.47.camel@home
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On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:08 +0200, Edoardo Ceccarelli wrote:
>
> I have read that autovacuum cannot check to see pg load before
> launching
> vacuum but is there any patch about it? that would sort out the
> problem
> in a good and simple way.

In some cases the solution to high load is to vacuum the tables being
hit the heaviest -- meaning that simply checking machine load isn't
enough to make that decision.

In fact, that high load problem is exactly why autovacuum was created in
the first place.
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