Re: enabling autovacuum - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Matthew T. O'Connor
Subject Re: enabling autovacuum
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Msg-id 47A12AD7.7090004@zeut.net
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In response to Re: enabling autovacuum  (Jeremy Harris <jgh@wizmail.org>)
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Jeremy Harris wrote:
> Chander Ganesan wrote:
>> Inserts don't generate dead tuples, and AVD looks at obsolete
>> tuples..  As such,  I wouldn't expect AVD to kick off until after you
>> did a mass delete...assuming that delete was sizable enough to
>> trigger a vacuum.
>
> Ah, that would explain it - thankyou.   So I need to retreat to
> the question of why the weekly vacuum permits the observed bloat.
> Any ideas?   More information that I could gather?

Autovacuum will kick off an analyze if you do enough inserts however.


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