Automatic Cleanup

autovacuum

Parameter description: Enables the automatic cleanup process (autovacuum) in the database. Ensure that the track_counts parameter is set to on before enabling the automatic cleanup process.

Type: SIGHUP

• Set the autovacuum parameter to on if you want to enable the function to automatically clean up two-phase transactions after the system recovers from faults.
• If autovacuum is set to on and the value of autovacuum_max_workers is 0, the system will not automatically clean up two-phase transactions. The system will clean up them after recovering from faults.
• If autovacuum is set to on and the value of autovacuum_max_workers is greater than 0, the system will automatically clean up the two-phase transactions and processes after recovering from faults.

Even if the autovacuum parameter is set to off, the automatic cleanup process will be enabled automatically by the database when a transaction ID wrap is about to occur. When the create database or drop database operation fails, some nodes may be submitted or rolled back while others in the prepared status may not be submitted. In this case, the system cannot automatically restore these nodes and the manual restoration is required. The restoration steps are as follows:

1. Use the gs_clean tool (setting the option parameter to -N) to query the xid of the abnormal two-phase transactions and nodes in the prepared state.
2. Log in to the nodes whose transactions are in the prepared status. Administrators connect to an available database such as gaussdb to run the set xc_maintenance_mode = on statement.
3. Submit or roll back the two-phase transactions (for example, submit or roll back a statement) based on global transaction status.

Value range: Boolean

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

Default value: off

autovacuum_mode

Parameter description: Specifies whether the autoanalyze or autovacuum function is enabled. This parameter is valid only when autovacuum is set to on.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: enumerated values

• analyze indicates that only autoanalyze is performed.
• vacuum indicates that only autovacuum is performed.
• mix indicates that both autoanalyze and autovacuum are performed.
• none indicates that neither of them is performed.

Default value: mix

autoanalyze_timeout

Parameter description: Specifies the timeout period of autoanalyze. If the duration of autoanalyze on a table exceeds the value of autoanalyze_timeout, the autoanalyze is automatically canceled.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from 0 to 2147483. The unit is second.

Default value: 5min

autovacuum_io_limits

Parameter description: Specifies the upper limit of I/Os triggered by the autovacuum process per second.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from –1 to 1073741823. –1 indicates that the default Cgroup is used.

Default value: –1

log_autovacuum_min_duration

Parameter description: Records each step performed by the automatic cleanup process to the server log when the execution time of the automatic cleanup process is greater than or equal to a certain value. This parameter helps track the automatic cleanup behaviors.

Type: SIGHUP

For example, set the log_autovacuum_min_duration parameter to 250 ms to record the information related to the automatic cleanup commands running the parameters whose values are greater than or equal to 250 ms.

Value range: an integer ranging from –1 to INT_MAX. The unit is ms.

• If this parameter is set to 0, all the automatic cleanup operations are recorded in the log.
• If this parameter is set to –1, all the automatic cleanup operations are not recorded in the log.
• If this parameter is not set to –1, an automatic cleanup operation is skipped and a message is recorded due to lock conflicts.

Default value: –1

autovacuum_max_workers

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum number of automatic cleanup threads running at the same time.

Type: POSTMASTER

Value range: an integer ranging from 0 to 262143. 0 indicates that autovacuum is disabled.

Default value: 3

autovacuum_naptime

Parameter description: Specifies the interval between two automatic cleanup operations.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from 1 to 2147483. The unit is second.

Default value: 10min

autovacuum_vacuum_threshold

Parameter description: Specifies the threshold for triggering the VACUUM operation. When the number of deleted or updated records in a table exceeds the specified threshold, the VACUUM operation is executed on this table.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from 0 to INT_MAX

Default value: 50

autovacuum_analyze_threshold

Parameter description: Specifies the threshold for triggering the ANALYZE operation. When the number of deleted, inserted, or updated records in a table exceeds the specified threshold, the ANALYZE operation is executed on this table.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from 0 to INT_MAX

Default value: 50

autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor

Parameter description: Specifies the size scaling factor of a table added to the autovacuum_vacuum_threshold parameter when a VACUUM event is triggered.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: a floating point number ranging from 0.0 to 100.0

Default value: 0.2

autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor

Parameter description: Specifies the size scaling factor of a table added to the autovacuum_analyze_threshold parameter when an ANALYZE event is triggered.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: a floating point number ranging from 0.0 to 100.0

Default value: 0.1

autovacuum_freeze_max_age

Parameter description: Specifies the maximum age (in transactions) that a table's pg_class.relfrozenxid column can attain before a VACUUM operation is forced to prevent transaction ID wraparound within the table.

The old files under the subdirectory of pg_clog/ can also be deleted by the VACUUM operation. Even if the automatic cleanup process is forbidden, the system will invoke the automatic cleanup process to prevent the cyclic repetition.

Type: POSTMASTER

Value range: an integer ranging from 100000 to 576460752303423487

Default value: 20000000000

autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay

Parameter description: Specifies the value of the cost delay used in the autovacuum operation.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from –1 to 100. The unit is ms. -1 indicates that the normal vacuum cost delay is used.

Default value: 20ms

autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit

Parameter description: Specifies the value of the cost limit used in the autovacuum operation.

Type: SIGHUP

Value range: an integer ranging from –1 to 10000. -1 indicates that the normal vacuum cost limit is used.

Default value: –1