Steve Crawford wrote:
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 3:49 pm, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:pg_autovacuum only knows about table activity that has taken place while it's running. Example: Table A has an analyze threshold of 1000, if you perform 999 updates on table A, then kill and restart pg_autovacuum, you will have to perform another 1000 updates before pg_autovacuum performs an ANALYZE. This is a large limitation of the current implementation. I tried to fix this for 8.0, but my autovacuum improvements didn't make the cut.As a quick-'n'-dirty "fix", what about a command-line option to autovacuum that tells it to vacuum analyze all tables on startup? At least it would start in a somewhat known condition.
I thought having pg_autovacuum do that, but seemed like overkill, but perhaps a command line option wouldn't be a bad thing. However, you could also just as easily do a manual vacuum analyze whenever you like.
Matthew