On 10/19/2016 06:27 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, > > After all these years, we are still regularly running into people who > say, "performance was bad so we disabled autovacuum". I am not talking > about once in a while, it is often. I would like us to consider removing > the autovacuum option. Here are a few reasons: > > 1. It does not hurt anyone > 2. It removes a foot gun > 3. Autovacuum is *not* optional, we shouldn't let it be > 4. People could still disable it at the table level for those tables > that do fall into the small window of, no maintenance is o.k. > 5. People would still have the ability to decrease the max_workers to 1 > (although I could argue about that too).
People who run data warehouses where all of the data comes in as batch loads regularly disable autovacuum, and should do so. For the DW/batch load use-case, it makes far more sense to do batch loads interspersed with ANALYZEs and VACUUMS of loaded/updated tables. -- -- Josh Berkus Red Hat OSAS (any opinions are my own) -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers