Re: Settings for autovacuum for batch uploading of data?

More important than sleep value is the vacuum threshold.  If for example
you are expecting to import 5000 rows of data, you can tell
pg_autovacuum to vacuum after every 5000 changes with like

pg_autovacuum -v 5000 -V 0

Matthew


On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 17:09, Carlos wrote:
> Hello Forum,
>
> I would appreciate it if you could recommend settings to use
> auto-vacuum in my version 7.4 database.  I am uploading several
> thousands records in the database at a rate of ~1 second per record
> (the data is uploading from a different server).  I have noticed that
> the performance of the uploading is improved if I vacuum the database
> every so often so I decided to take advantage of auto-vacuuming to
> maintain the best performance.  Since I am uploading several thousands
> records, I set autovacuum to 50 minutes with –s 3000 in the hope that
> a great deal of data would be committed before a regular vacuum would
> take place and that vacuuming would interfere the least possible with
> the uploading.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your recommendations.
>
>