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