Re: Autovacuum Question

["Mark Liberman" <mliberman(at)mixedsignals(dot)com>]

Title: RE: [ADMIN] Autovacuum Question

>Does this mean that each run of autovacuum will vacuum/analyze all tables
>that need work in the database that autovacuum is looking at?

Yes, it will do all tables that satisfy the criteria.

>Also, with over 200 databases, does this mean that a database will only get
>checked once about every 3.5 hours, or does autovacuum run on the database
>that needs the vacuuming the most?

If, you have it set to 60 seconds, then yes.  It hits one db each minute.  Actually, to be more clear, it sleeps 1 minute between each check.  So, if, on average, it takes 60 seconds to perform the necessary vacuum/analyzes, then it there will be, on average, 2 minutes between each db, or 400 minutes to get through all 200 dbs.