On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 06:47:21PM +0200, Mariel Cherkassky wrote: > Those settings helped but the table still grey very much. I wrote a script > that monitored some metadata about the table (pg_stat_all_tables,count(*) > from orig and toasted table). I let the system monitor the table for a week > and I found out the next info : > Autovacuum was running great during the whole week and whenever it reached > 10k records in the toasted table it started vacuuming the table. *However, > The db grew dramatically during a period of 7 hours in a specific day. In > those 7 hours the table contained more then 10k (and kept increasing) but > the autovacuum didnt vacuum the table*. I saw that during those 7 hours > autovacuum didnt run and as a result of that the table grew to its max > size(the current size). Does pg_stat_all_tables show that the table ought to have been vacuumed ? SELECT * FROM pg_stat_sys_tables WHERE relid='pg_toast.pg_toast_123456'::regclass; Compare with relpages, reltuple FROM pg_class What postgres version ? Justin
