Re: Autovacuum and Autoanalyze

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Autovacuum and Autoanalyze
Date: 2008-09-17 06:14:38
Message-ID: 20080917061438.GD6334@fetter.org
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:59:08PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > Disabling autovacuum can have catastrophic effects, since it disables
> > the ANALYZing of tables.
> >
> > Can we have a mode where we disable autoVACUUM yet enable autoANALYZE?
>
> You mean something like
> autovacuum = on / off / analyze ?
>
> We can certainly do that, but is there buy-in?

+1

Having autovacuum on during bulk loads can really tank performance,
but having autoanalyze on is good :)

Cheers,
David.
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