On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Vick Khera <vivek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> This is really only a temporary fix, though. We can have a cron job running >> in the background running TRUNCATE ONLY ... but this seems like the kind of >> thing that auto-vacuuming should have handled for us, before the problem got >> “too large”. Are there auto-vacuum settings that we can set, globally or on >> the table, to address this situation? > > Did auto-vacuum actually succeed in vacuuming this table? Check your > logs. You may need to make auto vacuum more log-verbose first. Yeah. If you are using 9.5 or newer versions, you could set log_autovacuum_min_duration to 0 for this relation and avoid a lot of noise in your logs. pg_stat_user_tables and pg_stat_all_tables also contain information regarding the last time autovacuum has been run on a relation. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general