Re: Postgres becoming slow, only full vacuum fixes it

Hi Mark,

When the problem appears, vacuuming is not helping. I ran vacuum manually and the problem was still there. Only full vacuum worked.

As far as I have understood, autovacuuming is NOT doing FULL vacuum. So, messing around with its values should not help me in any way.

Thanks

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> Given that vacuum full fixes the issue I suspect you need to have autovacuum set wake up much sooner, not later. So autovacuum_naptime = 28800 or even = 60 (i.e the default) is possibly too long. We have several database here where I change this setting to 10 i.e:
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> autovacuum_naptime = 10s
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> in order to avoid massive database bloat and queries that get slower and slower...
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> You might want to be a bit *less* aggressive with autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor - I usually have this at 0.1, i.e:
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> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.1
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> otherwise you will be vacuuming all the time - which is usually not what you want (not for all your tables anyway).
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> regards
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> Mark
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