Re: Still recommending daily vacuum...

From: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
To: Michael Paesold <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Still recommending daily vacuum...
Date: 2007-07-03 20:09:41
Message-ID: 20070703200941.GU85497@nasby.net
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On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:31:08AM +0200, Michael Paesold wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >>Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >>>Did we change the default autovac parameters for 8.3 (beyond turning
> >>>it on?) because on any reasonably used database, they are way to
> >>>conservative.
> >>
> >>We're still on time to change them ... Any concrete proposals?
> >
> >I could provide numbers from production high use databases. We could
> >probably back those down a little and make more reasonable numbers.
>
> Please do so. Perhaps others can also tell their typical settings.

FWIW, I normally go with the 8.2 defaults, though I could see dropping
vacuum_scale_factor down to 0.1 or 0.15. I also think the thresholds
could be decreased further, maybe divide by 10.
--
Jim Nasby decibel(at)decibel(dot)org
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)

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