8.2 Autovacuum BUG ?

[Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)livedatagroup(dot)com>]

Hi,


   We turned on autovacuums on 8.2 and we have a database which is read 
only , it is basically a USPS database used only for address lookups 
(only SELECTS, no updates/deletes/inserts).

   This database has about 10gig data and yesterday autovacuum started 
on this database and all of a sudden I see lot of archive logs generated 
during this time, I guess it might have generated close to 3-4gig data 
during this period.

   It was doing only vacuum not vacuum analyze. 

   My question is why does it have to generate so many archive logs on 
static tables ?

  I am thinking these archive logs are mostly empty , the reason I am 
saying that because I noticed that when I restore the db using PITR 
backups for my reporting db these same logs are recovered in seconds 
compared to the logs generated while vacuums are not running.

  Is this a BUG ? or am I missing something here ?


Vacuum Settings
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vacuum_cost_delay = 30
vacuum_cost_limit = 150
checkpoint_segments = 64
checkpoint_timeout = 5min           
checkpoint_warning = 30s
autovacuum = on
autovacuum_naptime = 120min
autovacuum_vacuum_threshold = 500
autovacuum_analyze_threshold = 250
autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.001
autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.001
autovacuum_freeze_max_age = 200000000
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = -1
autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit = -1



Thanks!
Pallav.