| From: | Chander Ganesan <chander(at)otg-nc(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jeremy Harris <jgh(at)wizmail(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: enabling autovacuum |
| Date: | 2008-01-30 02:54:22 |
| Message-ID: | 479FE6DE.6070508@otg-nc.com |
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Jeremy Harris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're starting to run autovacuum for the first time on a system
> that's been running with nightly cron-driven vacuum for some time.
>
> Version:
> PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
> 4.1.2 20070418 (Red Hat 4.1.2-10)
>
> We have one problematic table, which has a steady stream of entries
> and a weekly mass-delete of ancient history. The "bloat" query from
> Greg Sabino Mullane (thanks to Greg Smith for pointing it out) returns:
Inserts don't generate dead tuples, and AVD looks at obsolete tuples..
As such, I wouldn't expect AVD to kick off until after you did a mass
delete...assuming that delete was sizable enough to trigger a vacuum.
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