Hi Mark,

When the problem appears, vacuuming is not helping. I ran vacuum manually and 
the problem was still there. Only full vacuum worked.

As far as I have understood, autovacuuming is NOT doing FULL vacuum. So, 
messing around with its values should not help me in any way.


Thanks


> 
> Given that vacuum full fixes the issue I suspect you need to have autovacuum 
> set wake up much sooner, not later. So autovacuum_naptime = 28800 or even = 
> 60 (i.e the default) is possibly too long. We have several database here 
> where I change this setting to 10 i.e:
> 
> autovacuum_naptime = 10s
> 
> 
> in order to avoid massive database bloat and queries that get slower and 
> slower...
> 
> You might want to be a bit *less* aggressive with 
> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor - I usually have this at 0.1, i.e:
> 
> autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = 0.1
> 
> 
> otherwise you will be vacuuming all the time - which is usually not what you 
> want (not for all your tables anyway).
> 
> regards
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
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