Le 02/04/2011 16:06, Sven Haag a écrit : > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- >> Datum: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:17:37 +0200 >> Von: Jens Wilke <j...@wilke.org> >> An: pgsql-general@postgresql.org >> Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] Autovacuum firing up during my manual vacuum on same >> table > >> On Samstag, 2. April 2011, Henry C. wrote: >> >>> I just noticed something odd: I'm busy with a manual vacuum on a >>> table and an autovacuum keeps firing up as well. >> >> Usually a manual vacuum cancels a running autovacuum task. >> You should find a notice about the cancelation in th logfile. >> >>> current_query | vacuum analyze >>> age | 11:46:57.245568 >> >> Where is the age column from? >> It's not in pg_stat_activity. >> Is one of the two processes waiting=t in pg_stat_activity? >> Shure it's the same Table? Do you have one Table named >> page_citation_text in public and one in anoter sheme? >> >>> I'm trying to vacuum the table as quickly as possible so a manual >>> vacuum seems to be in order as my understanding (and experience) >>> is that the autovac is a hell of a lot slower to mitigate impact >>> on general performance. >> >> Tune the autovacuum settings, especially the scale factors of the >> tables in question and the cost limit. >> Is autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit != -1 ? >> This could be one reason, why manual vacuum is faster. >> >> Nevertheless since at least 8.4 IMO there's no need to bother with >> manual vacuum any more. >> >> Regards, Jens > > a bit off-topic, but: > i'm using pg 9 and always getting messages to vacuum tables in pgadmin. > according to your post this souldn't be the case? >
pgAdmin's hint doesn't take care of your PostgreSQL release. Its way to guess that a table needs to be vacuumed is a bit outdated (that's clearly an understatement :) ). -- Guillaume http://www.postgresql.fr http://dalibo.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general