Re: Help tuning autovacuum - seeing lots of relationbloat

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:21:05PM -0300, jody brownell wrote:
> Jun 21 13:04:04 vanquish postgres[3311]: [19-1] DEBUG:  "target": removed 5645231 row versions in 106508 pages
> Jun 21 13:04:04 vanquish postgres[3311]: [19-2] DETAIL:  CPU 3.37s/1.23u sec elapsed 40.63 sec.
> Jun 21 13:04:04 vanquish postgres[3311]: [20-1] DEBUG:  "target": found 5645231 removable, 1296817 nonremovable row
versionsin 114701 pages 
> Jun 21 13:04:04 vanquish postgres[3311]: [20-2] DETAIL:  0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.

So the table contained 5.6M dead rows and 1.3M live rows.

I think you should forget about having autovacuum keep this table
in-check and add manual vacuum commands to your code. Autovac is
intended to deal with 99% of use cases; this is pretty clearly in the 1%
it can't handle.
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