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authorMichael Paquier2021-09-25 06:12:07 +0000
committerMichael Paquier2021-09-25 06:12:07 +0000
commit26928441cbb4995fa1474c861d26d3318c8923f3 (patch)
tree8a974e2790fe24b49ddbbd0b99709a6954ed3099
parent63b5b4a9a1a8e5a5a16c043bf1503e321debe1df (diff)
doc: Improve description of index vacuuming with GUCs
Index vacuums may happen multiple times depending on the number of dead tuples stored, as of maintenance_work_mem for a manual VACUUM. For autovacuum, this is controlled by autovacuum_work_mem instead, if set. The documentation mentioned the former, but not the latter in the context of autovacuum. Reported-by: Nikolai Berkoff Author: Laurenz Albe, Euler Taveira Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/161545365522.10134.12195402324485546870@wrigleys.postgresql.org Backpatch-through: 9.6
-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
index 32932475340..16c927fcef3 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml
@@ -3512,8 +3512,9 @@ SELECT pg_stat_get_backend_pid(s.backendid) AS pid,
<command>VACUUM</command> is currently vacuuming the indexes. 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 <xref linkend="guc-maintenance-work-mem"/> is insufficient to
- store the number of dead tuples found.
+ if <xref linkend="guc-maintenance-work-mem"/> (or, in the case of autovacuum,
+ <xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-work-mem"/> if set) is insufficient to store
+ the number of dead tuples found.
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