Re: autovacuum stress-testing our system

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Tomas Vondra <tv(at)fuzzy(dot)cz>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum stress-testing our system
Date: 2012-09-27 09:51:28
Message-ID: CA+U5nMJMibhhnDf3sh+UzWE5RyniZrR0cuQaj=byjMpdJYUVyQ@mail.gmail.com
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On 26 September 2012 15:47, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Really, as far as autovacuum is concerned, it would be much more useful
> to be able to reliably detect that a table has been recently vacuumed,
> without having to request a 10ms-recent pgstat snapshot. That would
> greatly reduce the amount of time autovac spends on pgstat requests.

VACUUMing generates a relcache invalidation. Can we arrange for those
invalidations to be received by autovac launcher, so it gets immediate
feedback of recent activity without polling?

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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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