Re: Sub-millisecond [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay broken

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Sub-millisecond [autovacuum_]vacuum_cost_delay broken
Date: 2023-03-09 23:17:59
Message-ID: 658998.1678403879@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Melanie Plageman <melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 5:27 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> A minimalistic fix could be as attached. I'm not sure if it's worth
>> making the state variable global so that it can be reset to zero in
>> the places where we zero out VacuumCostBalance etc. Also note that
>> this is ignoring the VacuumSharedCostBalance stuff, so you'd possibly
>> have the extra delay accumulating in unexpected places when there are
>> multiple workers. But I really doubt it's worth worrying about that.

> What if someone resets the delay guc and there is still a large residual?

By definition, the residual is less than 1msec.

regards, tom lane

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