Re: 15,000 tables

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: me(at)alternize(dot)com
Cc: Michael Riess <mlriess(at)gmx(dot)de>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 15,000 tables
Date: 2005-12-01 21:16:04
Message-ID: 20051201211604.GA6375@surnet.cl
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me(at)alternize(dot)com wrote:

> what i noticed is autovacuum not working properly as it should. i had 8.1
> running with autovacuum for just 2 days or so and got warnings in pgadmin
> that my tables would need an vacuum.

Hum, so how is autovacuum's documentation lacking? Please read it
critically and let us know so we can improve it.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/maintenance.html#AUTOVACUUM

Maybe what you need is to lower the "vacuum base threshold" for tables
that are small.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

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