"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And +1 on Rod's suggestion to make it more aggressive. I always drop the > scale factor to at least 0.2 and 0.1 (though 0.1 and 0.05 don't seem > unreasonable), and typically drop the thresholds to 200 and 100 (though > again, lower is probably warrented).
The default fillfactors for index btree is 90%. So if we want to avoid spliting of the leaf pages, vacuum scale factors should be less than 0.1 in cases where tuples are only updated randomly. I think threshoulds should be less than PCTFREEs(=1-fillfactors) except ever-increasing tables. This is a too simplified policy, but we probably need documentation for the linkages between autovacuum and fillfactors. Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match