Ofer Israeli <of...@checkpoint.com> writes:
> During our testing we see that the table size increases substantially.  When 
> looking at the autovacuum log, set with default configuration, it seems that 
> it ran for around 60 seconds (see below and note that this was a 1-minute 
> test, i.e. only 100 updates)!

autovacuum is intended to run fairly slowly, so as to not consume too
much resources.  If you think it's too slow you can adjust the
autovacuum_cost tunables.

> When setting a higher cost for the autovacuum, tried values of 2000, it ran 
> for even longer: ~400 seconds!

That's the wrong direction, no?

                        regards, tom lane

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