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Increase threshold for multixact member emergency autovac to 50%. 

Analysis by Noah Misch shows that the 25% threshold set by commit
53bb309d2d is lower than any other,
similar autovac threshold.  While we don't know exactly what value
will be optimal for all users, it is better to err a little on the
high side than on the low side.  A higher value increases the risk
that users might exhaust the available space and start seeing errors
before autovacuum can clean things up sufficiently, but a user who
hits that problem can compensate for it by reducing
autovacuum_multixact_freeze_max_age to a value dependent on their
average multixact size.  On the flip side, if the emergency cap
imposed by that patch kicks in too early, the user will experience
excessive wraparound scanning and will be unable to mitigate that
problem by configuration.  The new value will hopefully reduce the
risk of such bad experiences while still providing enough headroom
to avoid multixact member exhaustion for most users.

Along the way, adjust the documentation to reflect the effects of
commit 04e6d3b877, which taught
autovacuum to run for multixact wraparound even when autovacuum
is configured off.
This commit is contained in:
Robert Haas 2015-05-11 12:07:13 -04:00
parent 2200713aa8
commit b4d4ce1d50
2 changed files with 5 additions and 4 deletions
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doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
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@ -658,11 +658,12 @@ HINT: Stop the postmaster and vacuum that database in single-user mode.
<para>
As a safety device, a whole-table vacuum scan will occur for any table
whose multixact-age is greater than
<xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-multixact-freeze-max-age">.
This will occur even if autovacuum is nominally disabled. Whole-table
<xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-multixact-freeze-max-age">. Whole-table
vacuum scans will also occur progressively for all tables, starting with
those that have the oldest multixact-age, if the amount of used member
storage space exceeds the amount 25% of the addressible storage space.
storage space exceeds the amount 50% of the addressible storage space.
Both of these kinds of whole-table scans will occur even if autovacuum is
nominally disabled.
</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>

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src/backend/access/transam/multixact.c
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@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
((xid) % MULTIXACT_MEMBERS_PER_MEMBERGROUP) * sizeof(TransactionId))
/* Multixact members wraparound thresholds. */
#define MULTIXACT_MEMBER_SAFE_THRESHOLD (MaxMultiXactOffset / 4)
#define MULTIXACT_MEMBER_SAFE_THRESHOLD (MaxMultiXactOffset / 2)
#define MULTIXACT_MEMBER_DANGER_THRESHOLD \
(MaxMultiXactOffset - MaxMultiXactOffset / 4)