Josh Berkus escribió: > #autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.2 > > This is set because in my experience, 20% bloat is about the level at > which bloat starts affecting performance; thus, we want to vacuum at > that level but not sooner. This does mean that very large tables which > never have more than 10% updates/deletes don't get vacuumed at all until > freeze_age; this is a *good thing*. VACUUM on large tables is expensive; > you don't *want* to vacuum a billion-row table which has only 100,000 > updates. Hmm, now that we have partial vacuum, perhaps we should revisit this. > It would be worth doing a DBT2/DBT5 test run with different autovac > settings post-8.4 so see if we should specifically change the vacuum > threshold. Right. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
