Hi,
Barbara Stephenson a écrit :
> We are new about autovacuum launcher on 8.3.1 and we are not sure what the
> parameters should be set to. Is setting them to default ok until we can
> monitor if it's vacumming too much?
>
You can do that. But the default are, as always with PostgreSQL, really
conservative. So you'll probably need to change them because it will not
vacuum enough.
> Below are the parameters that we think are the only params we need to do a
> basic vacuum and analyze to our entire database.
>
> autovacuum=true
> track_counts=ture
> log_autovacuum_min_duration=1000ms
> autovacuum_max_workers=3(default)
> autovacuum_naptime=60
> autovacuum_vacuum_threshold=50(default)
>
> Are the above settings all we need to start auto vacuuming?
ISTM you forgot autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor and the analyze parameters.
Regards.
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