Re: autovacuum: I need some explanation

Noah Freire escribió:

> please check the first log message: the vacuum threshold is 6,000,050 rows
> and the number of dead tuples is 16,697,969. Even though the number of
> dead_tuples is greater than the threshold the autovacuum is not being
> triggered for this table. So, besides this condition (dead_tuples >
> threshold) what else is taken into account by autovacuum?

That there's no other process doing the same.  Did you check
pg_stat_activity to ensure that there's really no autovacuum worker
processing this table?

> <2008-10-29 11:09:03.453 PDT>DEBUG: 00000: accounts: vac: 16697969
> (threshold 6000050), anl: 16697969 (threshold 120000048)
> <2008-10-29 11:09:05.610 PDT>DEBUG: 00000: accounts: vac: 16699578
> (threshold 6000050), anl: 16699578 (threshold 120000048)
> <2008-10-29 11:10:03.563 PDT>DEBUG: 00000: accounts: vac: 16735906
> (threshold 6000050), anl: 16735906 (threshold 120000048)

Are these log entries by the same process?  Please add %p to
log_line_prefix to see what's going on.

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