Hans-Juergen Schoenig wrote:

            regards, tom lane


overhead is not an issue here - if i lose 10 or 15% i am totally fine as long as i can reduce vacuum overhead to an absolute minimum.
overhead will vary with row sizes anyway - this is not the point.

I am not buying this argument. If you have a 5TB database, I am going to assume you put it on enterprise class hardware. Enterprise class hardware can handle the I/O required to appropriately run vacuum.

We have a customer that is constantly running 5 autovacuum workers on only 28 spindles. We are in the process of upgrading them to 50 spindles at which point I will likely try 10 autovacuum workers.


the point is that you don't want to potentially vacuum a table when only a handful of records has been changed.

Right, generally speaking 20% is reasonable, although I tend to be much more aggressive and try to keep it at 10%.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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