Re: pgsql: Consolidate docs for vacuum-related GUCs in new subsection

On 14.01.2025 22:01, Melanie Plageman wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM Alvaro Herrera<alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>  wrote:
>> On 2025-Jan-13, Melanie Plageman wrote:
>>
>>> I've gone with VACUUM_AUTOVACUUM, VACUUM_COST_DELAY, and
>>> VACUUM_FREEZING, but I am open to feedback.
>> Looks good to me.  I checked these two queries, whose results appear
>> correct:
>>
>> 55432 18devel 560655=# select name, category from pg_settings where category ilike '%vacuum%';
>>                   name                  │              category
>> ───────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────
>>   autovacuum                            │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor       │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_analyze_threshold          │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_freeze_max_age             │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_max_workers                │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age   │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_naptime                    │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay          │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit          │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold    │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor        │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_vacuum_threshold           │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   autovacuum_worker_slots               │ Vacuuming / Automatic Vacuuming
>>   vacuum_cost_delay                     │ Vacuuming / Cost-Based Vacuum Delay
>>   vacuum_cost_limit                     │ Vacuuming / Cost-Based Vacuum Delay
>>   vacuum_cost_page_dirty                │ Vacuuming / Cost-Based Vacuum Delay
>>   vacuum_cost_page_hit                  │ Vacuuming / Cost-Based Vacuum Delay
>>   vacuum_cost_page_miss                 │ Vacuuming / Cost-Based Vacuum Delay
>>   vacuum_failsafe_age                   │ Vacuuming / Freezing
>>   vacuum_freeze_min_age                 │ Vacuuming / Freezing
>>   vacuum_freeze_table_age               │ Vacuuming / Freezing
>>   vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age         │ Vacuuming / Freezing
>>   vacuum_multixact_freeze_min_age       │ Vacuuming / Freezing
>>   vacuum_multixact_freeze_table_age     │ Vacuuming / Freezing
>>
>>
>> 55432 18devel 560655=# select name, category from pg_settings where (short_desc ilike '%vacuum%' or extra_desc ilike '%vacuum%') and category not ilike '%vacuum%';
>>              name             │              category
>> ─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────
>>   autovacuum_work_mem         │ Resource Usage / Memory
>>   log_autovacuum_min_duration │ Reporting and Logging / What to Log
>>   maintenance_work_mem        │ Resource Usage / Memory
>>   vacuum_buffer_usage_limit   │ Resource Usage / Memory
> Yea, Alena also mentioned these GUCs that are in different groups. I
> think it is okay for these four to remain in their current locations
> as their current groupings seem descriptive enough.
>
Looking at them, I am willing to agree with you

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Regards,
Alena Rybakina
Postgres Professional