Hybrid Data Warehouse GUC Parameters

autovacuum

Parameter description: Specifies whether to start the automatic cleanup process (autovacuum).

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: Boolean

• on indicates the database automatic cleanup process is enabled.
• off indicates that the database automatic cleanup process is disabled.

Default value: on

autovacuum_max_workers

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum number of autovacuum worker threads that can run at the same time. The upper limit of this parameter is related to the values of max_connections and job_queue_processes.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer

• The minimum value is 0, indicating that autovacuum is not automatically performed.
• The theoretical maximum value is 262143, and the actual maximum value dynamically changes. Formula: 262143 - max_inner_tool_connections - max_connections - job_queue_processes - auxiliary threads - Number of autovacuum launcher threads - 1. The number of auxiliary threads and the number of autovacuum launcher threads are specified by two macros. Their default values in the current version are 20 and 2, respectively.

Default value: 3

autovacuum_max_workers_hstore

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum number of concurrent automatic cleanup threads used for hstore tables in autovacuum_max_workers.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer

Default value: 0

To use HStore tables, set the following parameters, or the HStore performance will deteriorate severely. The recommended settings are as follows:

autovacuum_max_workers_hstore=3, autovacuum_max_workers=6, autovacuum=true

enable_hstore_lightupdate

Parameter description: Specifies whether to enable lightweight UPDATE for an HStore table. (When an UPDATE operation is performed on an HStore table, the system automatically determines whether lightweight UPDATE is required.)

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: Boolean

• on indicates that lightweight UPDATE is enabled for hstore tables.
• off indicates that lightweight UPDATE is disabled for hstore tables.

Default value: off

enable_hstore_merge_keepgtm

Parameter description: Specifies whether the MERGE in the autovacuum operation on column-store and hstore tables occupies slots in the GTM.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: Boolean

• true indicates that it occupies slots in the GTM.
• false indicates that it does not occupy slots in the GTM.

Default value: true

hstore_buffer_size

Parameter description: Specifies the number of HStore CU slots. The slots are used to store the update chain of each CU, which significantly improves the update and query efficiency.

To prevent excessive memory usage, the system calculates a slot value based on the memory size, compares the slot value with the value of this parameter, and uses the smaller value of the two.

Type: POSTMASTER

Value range: an integer ranging from 100 to 100000

Default value: true