On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>
>> The trouble is that if we VACUUM and then ANALYZE, we'll often get
>> back a value very close to 100%, but then the real value may diminish
>> quite a bit before the next auto-analyze fires. I think if we can
>> figure out what to do about that problem we'll be well on our way...
>
> It's not so much an issue of when the last auto-analyze was as an issue
> of the number of rows in write transactions against that table in the
> last X minutes. This is where it really hurts us that
> pg_stat_user_tables is not time-based.
The number of write transactions in the last X minutes seems pretty
much irrelevant.
What matters is the number of previously-all-visible pages written
since the last vacuum.
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