Re: autovacuum stress-testing our system

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>
Cc: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum stress-testing our system
Date: 2012-09-26 15:29:22
Message-ID: 1348673324-sup-4711@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Tomas Vondra's message of mié sep 26 12:25:58 -0300 2012:
> Dne 26.09.2012 16:51, Jeff Janes napsal:

> > I think forking it off to to another value would be better. If you
> > are an autovacuum worker which is just starting up and so getting its
> > initial stats, you can tolerate a stats file up to
> > "autovacuum_naptime
> > / 5.0" stale. If you are already started up and are just about to
> > vacuum a table, then keep the staleness at PGSTAT_RETRY_DELAY as it
> > currently is, so as not to redundantly vacuum a table.
>
> I always thought there's a "no more than one worker per database"
> limit,

There is no such limitation.

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