Re: Missing mention of autovacuum_work_mem

On Mon, 2021-09-20 at 08:07 +0000, nikolai.berkoff wrote:
> I can see in
> src/backend/access/heap/vacuumlazy.c
> that compute_max_dead_tuples uses autovacuum_work_mem when it is given.
>
> The "vacuuming indexes" documentation has:
>
> > "If a table has any indexes, this will happen at least once per vacuum,
> > after the heap has been completely scanned. It may happen multiple times per
> > vacuum if maintenance_work_mem is insufficient to store the number of dead
> > tuples found."

Your suggested change is:

> "If a table has any indexes, this will happen at least once per vacuum,
> after the heap has been completely scanned. It may happen multiple times per
> vacuum if the memory is insufficient to store the number of dead
> tuples found. The memory is set via the maintenance_work_mem unless
> it is an autovacuum then autovacuum_work_mem will be used."

Why not keep it simple with

"If a table has any indexes, this will happen at least once per vacuum,
 after the heap has been completely scanned. It may happen multiple times per
 vacuum if maintenance_work_mem (or, in the case of autovacuum,
 autovacuum_work_mem) is insufficient to store the number of dead
 tuples found."

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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