On 07/18/2018 10:43 AM, Andreas Kretschmer wrote: > > > Am 18.07.2018 um 10:26 schrieb Hans Schou: >> Am I doing something wrong or should some history be cleared? > > Reset the stats for that database. You can check the date of last reset > with: > > select stats_reset from pg_stat_database where datname = 'database_name'; > > and reset it with: > > ||pg_stat_reset() > || > ||Reset all statistics counters for the current database to zero > (requires superuser privileges by default, but EXECUTE for this function > can be granted to others.)|| > It might be better to note current values of the counters somewhere, and compute a delta later (and use that to compute the cache hit ratio). The issue is that pg_stat_reset() throws away all sorts of interesting and important stats, including those driving autovacuum/autoanalyze. regards -- Tomas Vondra http://www.2ndQuadrant.com PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services