Re: Berserk Autovacuum (let's save next Mandrill)

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Masahiko Sawada <masahiko.sawada@2ndquadrant.com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com>, Tomas Vondra <tomas.vondra@2ndquadrant.com>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>, Darafei Komяpa Praliaskouski <me@komzpa.net>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Date: 2020-03-25T15:46:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2020-Mar-25, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> Maybe in the docs you can write this with thousands separators: 10,000,000
> 
> It looks like the GUC uses scale factor max=1e10, but the relopt is still
> max=100, which means it's less possible to disable for a single rel.

I have paid no attention to this thread, but how does it make sense to
have a scale factor to be higher than 100?  Surely you mean the
threshold value that should be set to ten million, not the scale factor?

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Commits

  1. Further improve stability fix for partition_aggregate test.

  2. Improve stability fix for partition_aggregate test.

  3. Attempt to stabilize partitionwise_aggregate test

  4. Fix race condition in statext_store().

  5. Attempt to fix unstable regression tests, take 2

  6. Attempt to fix unstable regression tests

  7. Trigger autovacuum based on number of INSERTs

  8. Fix upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor