Hi Tomas,
Unfortunately I think you are mistaken - disabling the stats collector
(i.e. track_counts = off) means that autovacuum has no idea about
when/if it needs to start a worker (as it uses those counts to decide),
and hence you lose all automatic vacuum and analyze as a result.
With respect to comments like "it shouldn't make difference" etc etc,
well the profile suggests otherwise, and the change in tps numbers
support the observation.
regards
Mark
On 30/07/14 20:42, Tomas Vondra wrote:
On 30 Červenec 2014, 3:44, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
While these numbers look great in the middle range (12-96 clients), then
benefit looks to be tailing off as client numbers increase. Also running
with no stats (and hence no auto vacuum or analyze) is way too scary!
I assume you've disabled statistics collector, which has nothing to do
with vacuum or analyze.
There are two kinds of statistics in PostgreSQL - data distribution
statistics (which is collected by ANALYZE and stored in actual tables
within the database) and runtime statistics (which is collected by the
stats collector and stored in a file somewhere on the dist).
By disabling statistics collector you loose runtime counters - number of
sequential/index scans on a table, tuples read from a relation aetc. But
it does not influence VACUUM or planning at all.
Also, it's mostly async (send over UDP and you're done) and shouldn't make
much difference unless you have large number of objects. There are ways to
improve this (e.g. by placing the stat files into a tmpfs).
Tomas
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