From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jim Nasby <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: autovacuum default parameters (was Re: 8.2 is 30% better in pgbench than 8.3) |
Date: | 2007-07-24 04:32:02 |
Message-ID: | 46A580C2.3090809@commandprompt.com |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Gregory Stark wrote:
>> "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>>> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>>>>> I am taking the liberty to also lower the vacuum and analyze threshold
>>>>> default values to 50, per previous discussion.
>> Did we also reach any consensus about lowering the percentage of dead tuples
>> in a table before we trigger vacuum? I think 20% is way too high and 5% is
>> saner. I actually think it would be better even lower but would be ok with 5%.
>
> We didn't, but while I agree with the idea, I think 5% is too low. I
> don't want autovacuum to get excessively aggressive. Is 10% not enough?
It depends really. 10% on a small table seems like a waste except that
small tables are quick to vacuum. 10% on a table with 20 million rows,
is a lot of dead rows.
Joshua D. Drake
>
> How about the analyze scale factor, should we keep the current 10%? I
> have less of a problem with reducing it further since analyze is cheaper
> than vacuum.
>
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