Re: [HACKERS] GUC for cleanup indexes threshold.

Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>

From: Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>
To: Sawada Masahiko <sawada.mshk@gmail.com>
Cc: Darafei Praliaskouski <me@komzpa.net>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Kyotaro HORIGUCHI <horiguchi.kyotaro@lab.ntt.co.jp>, Yura Sokolov <y.sokolov@postgrespro.ru>, Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila16@gmail.com>, "Ideriha, Takeshi" <ideriha.takeshi@jp.fujitsu.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Kuntal Ghosh <kuntalghosh.2007@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
Date: 2018-06-20T09:00:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:32 AM Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 1:00 AM, Alexander Korotkov
> > Ok.  I've rephrased comment a bit.  Also, you created "index vacuum"
> > subsection in the "resource usage" section.  I think it's not
> > appropriate for this option to be in "resource usage".  Ideally it
> > should be grouped with other vacuum options, but we don't have single
> > section for that.  "Autovacuum" section is also not appropriate,
> > because this guc works not only for autovacuum.  So, most semantically
> > close options, which affects vacuum in general, are
> > vacuum_freeze_min_age, vacuum_freeze_table_age,
> > vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age and vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age,
> > which are located in "client connection defaults" section.  So, I
> > decided to move this GUC into this section.  I also change the section
> > in GUC definition (guc.c) from AUTOVACUUM to CLIENT_CONN_STATEMENT.
>
> Agreed. So should we move it to 19.11 Client Connection Defaults in
> doc as well? And I think it's better if this option places next to
> other vacuum options for finding easier. Attached patch changes them
> so. Please review it.

Right, thank you.  Looks good for me.
I'm going to commit this if no objections.

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Alexander Korotkov
Postgres Professional: http://www.postgrespro.com
The Russian Postgres Company


Commits

  1. Fix upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor

  2. Increase upper limit for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor

  3. Fixes for vacuum_cleanup_index_scale_factor GUC option

  4. Skip full index scan during cleanup of B-tree indexes when possible