RE: Does the work made by vaccum in the current pass is lost when interrupted?

Thank you Michael for your suggestion,

I will reduce vacuum_cost_delay and increasing vacuum_cost_limit to speedup vacuum.

But the I/O system is very solicitated on PROD system and I do not want to impact end user performance.

If aggressive cost_delay and vacuum_cost_limit slow down significatively end user performance, I may have to kill the vacuum, but would like to keep as much vacuum work as possible.

My concern is about the size of the max_dead_tuples buffer determined by the autovacuum_work_mem

• autovacuum_work_mem is currently 1GB (default to maintenance_work_mem)

When I ran a vacuum on a DEV system and it made a single “scanning heap/vacuuming indexes/vacuuming heap” cycle of about 12 hours.

The vacuuming indexes phase is half the total time (6 hrs).

Q1: I guess that if I have to kill the vacuum midway, I will lose all the work it did during the scanning heap step? Right?

Q2: If I reduce autovacuum_work_mem to 32MB, is there any side effect performance on the vacuum?

thanks