On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:14:34AM -0500, Robert James wrote: > What rules of thumb exist for: > * How often a table needs to be vacuumed? > * How often a table needs to be analyzed? > * How to tune Autovacuum? > > I have a large DB server, and I'm concerned that it's not being > autovaccumed and autoanalyzed frequently enough. But I have no idea > what proper values should be? > > A related question: If I INSERT a large number of records per day, > similar in nature to the existing records, does that require new > vacuum? new analyze? Or do I only need those for DELETEs or changes to > the nature of records? > > Finally: What type of performance impact can I expect from vacuum and > analyze, in general?
Unless you are very high-volume, the auto-vacuum default settings are fine. The default do allow up to 20% of unused space in tables, but making that lower is expensive to performance. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
