Re: Postgres auto vacuum - Disable

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От Karthik Jagadish (kjagadis)
Тема Re: Postgres auto vacuum - Disable
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Hi,

 

Thanks for the response.

 

I have follow-up question where the vacuum process is waiting and not doing it’s job. When we grep on waiting process we see below output. Whenever we see this we notice that the vacuum is not happening and the system is running out of space.

 

[root@zpah0031 ~]# ps -ef | grep 'waiting'

postgres  8833 62646  0 Jul28 ?        00:00:00 postgres: postgres cgms [local] VACUUM waiting

postgres 18437 62646  0 Jul27 ?        00:00:00 postgres: postgres cgms [local] VACUUM waiting

 

 

What could be the reason as to why the vacuum is not happening? Is it because some lock is present in the table/db or any other reason?

 

Regards,

Karthik

 

From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Date: Monday, 7 November 2022 at 5:17 PM
To: Karthik Jagadish (kjagadis) <kjagadis@cisco.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, Chandruganth Ayyavoo Selvam (chaayyav) <chaayyav@cisco.com>, Prasanna Satyanarayanan (prassaty) <prassaty@cisco.com>, Jaganbabu M (jmunusam) <jmunusam@cisco.com>, Joel Mariadasan (jomariad) <jomariad@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Postgres auto vacuum - Disable

Hi

 

On Mon, 7 Nov 2022 at 11:42, Karthik Jagadish (kjagadis) <kjagadis@cisco.com> wrote:

Hi,

 

We have a NMS application in cisco and using postgres as a database.

 

We have query related to disabling auto vacuum. We have below configuration in postgres.conf where the autovacuum=on is commented out.

 

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But when checked in database we notice that it’s showing as on

 

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What would this mean? Does it mean that autovacuum is not disabled? Appreciate a response.

 

Right. The default is for it to be enabled, so commenting out the option does nothing. You would need to set it explicitly to off.

 

BUT... you almost certainly don't want to do that. Cases where it should be disabled are *extremely* rare. Make sure you *really* know what you're letting yourself in for by disabling autovacuum, and don't rely on 10+ year old performance tuning advice from random places on the internet, if that's what you're doing. 

 

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