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

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>

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From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>, 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>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>, Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net>
Date: 2020-03-18T19:55:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2020-03-17 at 17:26 -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2020-03-17 01:14:02 +0100, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > lazy_check_needs_freeze() is only called for an aggressive vacuum, which
> > this isn't.
> 
> Hm? I mean some of these will be aggressive vacuums, because it's older
> than vacuum_freeze_table_age? And the lower age limit would make that
> potentially more painful, no?

You are right.  I thought of autovacuum_freeze_max_age, but not of
vacuum_freeze_table_age.

Autovacuum configuration is so woefully complicated that it makes me
feel bad to propose two more parameters :^(

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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