From: | "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> |
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To: | Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org Admin" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: More Autovacuum questions |
Date: | 2008-07-15 15:12:30 |
Message-ID: | 487CBE5E.6030903@zeut.net |
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Chris Hoover wrote:
> Another question.
>
> When autovacuum sleeps, does it release the lock it has on the table?
>
> What we would like to have happen is for vacuum to work for a while,
> sleep, and while it is sleeping run an analyze on the table. We need
> this due to how quickly our data is changing. Currently we are running
> analyze every 5 minutes against the table of question and get a very
> serious performance hit when vacuum runs due to the index stats getting
> out of date. As soon as we rerun analyze after the vacuum happiness
> returns.
>
> The pg_total_relation_size for the table in question is 64GB, and as
> stated above is a very heavily used and modifed table.
As Alvaro already said this is a case where autovacuum still isn't
great. Perhaps what you should do here is disable auto-vacumming of the
table during busy periods and and only have it vacuum at off peak times?
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