On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 08:36:42PM +0300, Andrus wrote: > > BTW, you might want to cut all the autovac thresholds in half; that's > > what I typically do. > > I added ANALYZE command to my procedure which creates and loads data to > postgres database > from other DBMS. This runs only onvce after installing my application. I > hope this is sufficient. > If default threshold is so conservative values I expect there is some reason > for it. The only reason for being so conservative that I'm aware of was that it was a best guess. Everyone I've talked to cuts the defaults down by at least a factor of 2, sometimes even more. BTW, these parameters are already tweaked from what we started with in contrib/pg_autovacuum. It would allow a table to grow to 2x larger than it should be before vacuuming, as opposed to the 40% that the current settings allow. But even there, is there any real reason you want to have 40% bloat? To make matters worse, those settings ensure that all but the smallest databases will suffer runaway bloat unless you bump up the FSM settings. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
