Re: [PERFORM] More detail on settings for pgavd?

Matthew T. O'Connor <matthew@zeut.net>

From: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew@zeut.net>
To: Shridhar Daithankar <shridhar_daithankar@myrealbox.com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-20T16:32:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-performance
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

>On Thursday 20 November 2003 20:00, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
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>>Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
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>>>I am still wary of inverting vacuum analyze frequency. You think it is
>>>better to set inverted default rather than documenting it?
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>>I think inverting the vacuum and analyze frequency is wrong.
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>Me. Too. ATM all I can think of this patch attached. Josh, is it sufficient 
>for you?..:-)
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The patch just adds an example to the README, this looks ok to me.

>Matthew, I am confyused about one thing. Why would autovacuum count updates 
>while checking for analyze threshold? Analyze does not change statistics 
>right? ( w.r.t line 1072, pg_autovacuum.c). For updating statistics, only 
>inserts+deletes should suffice, isn't it?
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An update is the equivelant of an insert and a delete, so it counts 
towards the analyze count as much as an insert.

>Other than that, I think autovacuum does everything it can.
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It could be more customizable.