From 39712d1184f184ee348e701ca794fdf8d6a51510 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 15:52:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make a few marginal improvements to the documentation for the
AV launcher daemon.
---
doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
index d71f7968516..de8df507eac 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.73 2007/05/03 15:47:48 alvherre Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.74 2007/05/15 15:52:40 neilc Exp $ -->
<chapter id="maintenance">
<title>Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</title>
@@ -485,7 +485,9 @@ HINT: Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to VACUUM in "mydb".
multi-process architecture: there is a daemon process, called the
<firstterm>autovacuum launcher</firstterm>, which is in charge of starting
an <firstterm>autovacuum worker</firstterm> process on each database every
- <xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-naptime"> seconds.
+ <xref linkend="guc-autovacuum-naptime"> seconds. On each run, the worker
+ process checks each table within that database, and <command>VACUUM</> or
+ <command>ANALYZE</> commands are issued as needed.
</para>
<para>
@@ -493,7 +495,7 @@ HINT: Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to VACUUM in "mydb".
processes that may be running at any time, so if the <command>VACUUM</>
and <command>ANALYZE</> work to do takes too long to run, the deadline may
be failed to meet for other databases. Also, if a particular database
- takes long to process, more than one worker may be processing it
+ takes a long time to process, more than one worker may be processing it
simultaneously. The workers are smart enough to avoid repeating work that
other workers have done, so this is normally not a problem. Note that the
number of running workers does not count towards the <xref
@@ -501,12 +503,6 @@ HINT: Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to VACUUM in "mydb".
linkend="guc-superuser-reserved-connections"> limits.
</para>
- <para>
- On each run, the worker process checks each table within that database, and
- <command>VACUUM</command> or <command>ANALYZE</command> commands are
- issued as needed.
- </para>
-
<para>
Tables whose <structfield>relfrozenxid</> value is more than
<varname>autovacuum_freeze_max_age</> transactions old are always
@@ -591,19 +587,19 @@ analyze threshold = analyze base threshold + analyze scale factor * number of tu
<caution>
<para>
The contents of the <structname>pg_autovacuum</structname> system
- catalog are currently not saved in database dumps created by
- the tools <command>pg_dump</command> and <command>pg_dumpall</command>.
- If you want to preserve them across a dump/reload cycle, make sure you
- dump the catalog manually.
+ catalog are currently not saved in database dumps created by the
+ tools <application>pg_dump</> and <application>pg_dumpall</>. If
+ you want to preserve them across a dump/reload cycle, make sure
+ you dump the catalog manually.
</para>
</caution>
<para>
- When multiple workers are running, the cost limit is "balanced" among all
- the running workers, so that the total impact on the system is the same,
- regardless of the number of workers actually running.
+ When multiple workers are running, the cost limit is
+ <quote>balanced</quote> among all the running workers, so that the
+ total impact on the system is the same, regardless of the number
+ of workers actually running.
</para>
-
</sect2>
</sect1>
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