Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Anton Melser
The idea is that you _can_ do without a cronjob. You may need to do a first ANALYZE just to get things warmed up, and then let autovacuum do its job. Thanks guys, I think I have it now! Cheers Antoine ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you sear

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Anton Melser wrote: > On 09/11/06, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Anton Melser wrote: > > > >> Thanks for that. Just a clarification, can someone tell me what the > >> "number of tuples" means in the context of the multipliers? I mean, > >> when the vacuum min multiplier is at 0.4, we

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Anton Melser
On 09/11/06, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anton Melser wrote: > Thanks for that. Just a clarification, can someone tell me what the > "number of tuples" means in the context of the multipliers? I mean, > when the vacuum min multiplier is at 0.4, we multiply 0.4 by what? I > get the

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Anton Melser wrote: > Thanks for that. Just a clarification, can someone tell me what the > "number of tuples" means in the context of the multipliers? I mean, > when the vacuum min multiplier is at 0.4, we multiply 0.4 by what? I > get the min val, but what are we multiplying by 0.4? The total nu

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 18:16 +0100, Anton Melser wrote: > On 09/11/06, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anton Melser wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I just can't understand why autovacuum is not working. I have a test > > > db/table which I insert values into (by the thousands) and can't work >

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Anton Melser
On 09/11/06, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anton Melser wrote: > Hi, > I just can't understand why autovacuum is not working. I have a test > db/table which I insert values into (by the thousands) and can't work > out why my stats don't get updated. Could someone have a quick look at

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Anton Melser wrote: > Hi, > I just can't understand why autovacuum is not working. I have a test > db/table which I insert values into (by the thousands) and can't work > out why my stats don't get updated. Could someone have a quick look at > my attached .conf and tell me what I am doing? > I am r

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Matthias . Pitzl
t; Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 1:12 PM > To: Richard Huxton > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues > postgres 1300 0.0 1.1 20180 3048 ?S12:03 0:00 > /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data > postgres 130

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Anton Melser
On 09/11/06, Richard Huxton wrote: Anton Melser wrote: > Hi, > I just can't understand why autovacuum is not working. I have a test > db/table which I insert values into (by the thousands) and can't work > out why my stats don't get updated. Could someone have a quick look at > my attached .conf

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Anton Melser wrote: Hi, I just can't understand why autovacuum is not working. I have a test db/table which I insert values into (by the thousands) and can't work out why my stats don't get updated. Could someone have a quick look at my attached .conf and tell me what I am doing? I am running it

[GENERAL] autovacuum blues

2006-11-09 Thread Anton Melser
Hi, I just can't understand why autovacuum is not working. I have a test db/table which I insert values into (by the thousands) and can't work out why my stats don't get updated. Could someone have a quick look at my attached .conf and tell me what I am doing? I am running it on FC5 8.1.4.fc5.1. C