Re: 12 hour table vacuums

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Ron St-Pierre <ron(dot)pgsql(at)shaw(dot)ca>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 12 hour table vacuums
Date: 2007-10-23 16:12:04
Message-ID: 20071023161204.GK18013@alvh.no-ip.org
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Ron St-Pierre wrote:

> Okay, here's our system:
> postgres 8.1.4

Upgrade to 8.1.10

> Here's the table information:
> The table has 140,000 rows, 130 columns (mostly NUMERIC), 60 indexes.

60 indexes? You gotta be kidding. You really have 60 columns on which
to scan?

> vacuum_cost_delay = 200
> vacuum_cost_limit = 100

Isn't this a bit high? What happens if you cut the delay to, say, 10?
(considering you've lowered the limit to half the default)

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Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"Someone said that it is at least an order of magnitude more work to do
production software than a prototype. I think he is wrong by at least
an order of magnitude." (Brian Kernighan)

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