Re: Autovacuuming

Thanks for the reply. we will be reviewing the settings soon.
Also have manually ran the database-wide vacuum on the 50GB database . (for
safety reasons). the transaction count is 1147399191. we plan to automate
this process once a month or so.

Do we need to Disable the Auto-vacuum deamon when we manually run the
database-wide vacuum command ?.

thanks in advance.

On 4/24/06, Jim C. Nasby <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:21:16AM +0530, Gourish Singbal wrote:
> > The Age of the database is 1144759836 . We have enabled autovacuuming .
> > The details are:-
> > autovacuum = on
> > autovacuum_naptime = 300
> > autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 10000
> > autovacuum_analyze_threshold = 5000
> > autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.3
> > autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.3
>
> Those settings are *really* conservative... I normally use 400, 200,
> 0.2, 0.1 respectively...
>
> > Wanted to know when the auto-vacuum daemon will run an
> database-wide vacuum
> > call to avoid transaction ID wraparound failures.
>
> IIRC it will do that somewhere between 2B and 4B transactions have
> elapsed. The true answer lies somewhere in
> src/backend/postmaster/autovacuum.c.
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Best,
Gourish Singbal