On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks to me like autovacuum doesn't ever consider when HOT updates > lead to page splits, and so require vacuuming. Or am I diagnosing it wrong? I'm not sure what you mean by a page split. An update wherein the new heap tuple won't fit on the same page as the existing heap tuple should be treated as non-HOT. But nothing gets split in that case. I think of a page split as an index event, and if these are HOT updates there shouldn't be any index changes at all. Can we see those stats again with n_tup_ins/upd/del? -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance
