Reduce the default value of vacuum_cost_page_miss.

When commit f425b605 introduced cost based vacuum delays back in 2004,
the defaults reflected then-current trends in hardware, as well as
certain historical limitations in PostgreSQL.  There have been enormous
improvements in both areas since that time.  The cost limit GUC defaults
finally became much more representative of current trends following
commit cbccac37, which decreased autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay's default
by 10x for PostgreSQL 12 (it went from 20ms to only 2ms).

The relative costs have shifted too.  This should also be accounted for
by the defaults.  More specifically, the relative importance of avoiding
dirtying pages within VACUUM has greatly increased, primarily due to
main memory capacity scaling and trends in flash storage.  Within
Postgres itself, improvements like sequential access during index
vacuuming (at least in nbtree and GiST indexes) have also been
contributing factors.

To reflect all this, decrease the default of vacuum_cost_page_miss to 2.
Since the default of vacuum_cost_page_dirty remains 20, dirtying a page
is now considered 10x "costlier" than a page miss by default.

Author: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmLPFnkWT8xMjmcsm7YS3+_Qi3iRWAb2+_Bc8UhVyHfuA@mail.gmail.com
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Peter Geoghegan 2021-01-27 15:11:13 -08:00
parent 69059d3b2f
commit e19594c5c0
4 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -2116,7 +2116,7 @@ include_dir 'conf.d'
The estimated cost for vacuuming a buffer that has to be read from
disk. This represents the effort to lock the buffer pool,
lookup the shared hash table, read the desired block in from
the disk and scan its content. The default value is 10.
the disk and scan its content. The default value is 2.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

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@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ int max_parallel_workers = 8;
int MaxBackends = 0;
int VacuumCostPageHit = 1; /* GUC parameters for vacuum */
int VacuumCostPageMiss = 10;
int VacuumCostPageMiss = 2;
int VacuumCostPageDirty = 20;
int VacuumCostLimit = 200;
double VacuumCostDelay = 0;

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@ -2413,7 +2413,7 @@ static struct config_int ConfigureNamesInt[] =
NULL
},
&VacuumCostPageMiss,
10, 0, 10000,
2, 0, 10000,
NULL, NULL, NULL
},

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@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
#vacuum_cost_delay = 0 # 0-100 milliseconds (0 disables)
#vacuum_cost_page_hit = 1 # 0-10000 credits
#vacuum_cost_page_miss = 10 # 0-10000 credits
#vacuum_cost_page_miss = 2 # 0-10000 credits
#vacuum_cost_page_dirty = 20 # 0-10000 credits
#vacuum_cost_limit = 200 # 1-10000 credits