Re: Autovacuum is running forever

[Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>]

Sachchida Ojha wrote:

> vacuum_cost_delay                               = 200

That is absurdly high.  A setting of 10 is more likely to be useful.

> autovacuum_naptime                              = 3600

That is too high probably as well; particularly so if you have "updates
and deletes every second".

> #autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor         = 0.4
> #autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.2

These too.  Try 0.1 for both and see how it goes.

In short, you need autovacuum to run _way more often_ than you are.

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