Re: Vacuum Tuning Question

Hi,

 

I have a fairly large database (several TBs) where auto vacuum is enabled. My focus is to keep the datfrozenxid reasonably low and avoid manual vacuum. When I run following query, I see the percentage creeping up every day. Right after running vacuum manually on tables with large relfrozenxid the following query would return 7% on pgprd1 database but after 5 months it increased to 40%. So, eventually I am afraid I have to vacuum the tables manually which has its own problems like creating massive WALs in a short time etc. I would like to avoid manual vacuuming for this reason.

 

 

 

SELECT freez, txns, ROUND(100*(txns/freez::float)) AS perc, datname

FROM (SELECT foo.freez::int, age(datfrozenxid) AS txns, datname

FROM pg_database d JOIN (SELECT setting AS freez FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'autovacuum_freeze_max_age') AS foo

ON (true) WHERE d.datallowconn) AS foo2 ORDER BY 3 DESC, 4 ASC;

 

1500000000 | 599260139 |   40 | pgprd1

1500000000 |  50138249 |    3 | postgres

1500000000 |  50138249 |    3 | template1

 

 

Auto vacuum is working as I can see from logs it is repeatedly vacuuming same tables, but I don’t see that as a problem because those are the tables that get updated/inserted continuously.

Following are the settings I have. I am wondering if there is a way autovacuum  can keep the above “datfrozenxid” low and not keep increasing. Thank you ahead time for reading my post.

 

postgres=# select name, setting, unit from pg_settings where name like '%autovacuum%';

                 name                  |  setting   | unit

---------------------------------------+------------+------

autovacuum                            | on         |

autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor       | 0.1        |

autovacuum_analyze_threshold          | 5000       |

autovacuum_freeze_max_age             | 1500000000 |

autovacuum_max_workers                | 5          |

autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age   | 400000000  |

autovacuum_naptime                    | 60         | s

autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay          | 2          | ms

autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit          | -1         |

autovacuum_vacuum_insert_scale_factor | 0          |

autovacuum_vacuum_insert_threshold    | 5000       |

autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor        | 0          |

autovacuum_vacuum_threshold           | 5000       |

autovacuum_work_mem                   | -1         | kB

log_autovacuum_min_duration           | 0          | ms

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