Shridhar,>>However I do not agree with this logic entirely. It pegs the next vacuum
w.r.t current table size which is not always a good thing.
No, I think the logic's fine, it's the numbers which are wrong. We want to vacuum when updates reach between 5% and 15% of total rows. NOT when updates reach 110% of total rows ... that's much too late.
Well, looks like thresholds below 1 should be norm rather than exception.
Hmmm ... I also think the threshold level needs to be lowered; I guess the purpose was to prevent continuous re-vacuuuming of small tables? Unfortunately, in the current implementation, the result is tha small tables never get vacuumed at all.
So for defaults, I would peg -V at 0.1 and -v at 100, so our default calculation for a table with 10,000 rows is:
100 + ( 0.1 * 10,000 ) = 1100 rows.
I would say -V 0.2-0.4 could be great as well. Fact to emphasize is that thresholds less than 1 should be used.
Yes. Vacuum threshold is counting deletes, I hope?Furthermore analyze threshold depends upon inserts+updates. I think it should also depends upon deletes for obvious reasons.
It does.
My comment about the frequency of vacuums vs. analyze is that currently the *default* is to analyze twice as often as you vacuum. Based on my experiece as a PG admin on a variety of databases, I believe that the default should be to analyze half as often as you vacuum.
OK.
I will have real data very soon .....I am all for experimentation. If you have real life data to play with, I can give you some patches to play around.
I will submit a patch that would account deletes in analyze threshold. Since you want to delay the analyze, I would calculate analyze count as
n=updates + inserts *-* deletes
Rather than current "n = updates + inserts". Also update readme about examples and analyze frequency.
What does statistics gather BTW? Just number of rows or something else as well? I think I would put that on Hackers separately.
I am still wary of inverting vacuum analyze frequency. You think it is better to set inverted default rather than documenting it?
Shridhar
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