[HN Gopher] Optimizing Postgres's autovacuum for high-churn tables
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Optimizing Postgres's autovacuum for high-churn tables
Author : chuckhend
Score : 23 points
Date : 2023-09-01 16:29 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| abalashov wrote:
| Very helpful article! It jives with the evolution of my own
| understanding of autovacuum tuning over a decade and a half of
| writing high-performance Postgres-backed VoIP routing systems.
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| I would add to this that if you truly have a high-churn table,
| perhaps a traditional RDBM is not the best choice. Ask me how I
| learned that lesson the hard way. There are many things that, in
| hindsight, really should have gone into ELK or Splunk or Redis or
| something more suited to ephemeral or short-lived data sets that
| also turn over constantly.
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| But, sometimes there is no choice, or the churn is high but not
| quite high enough to rule out the use of an RDBM altogether. For
| those scenarios, the tips in this article really shine.
| sophacles wrote:
| How'd you learn that lesson the hard way?
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