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Give VACUUM its own GUC parameter for memory usage, rather than
piggybacking on SortMem. Add documentation for some recently-added GUC parameters that had so far escaped it.
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<Chapter Id="runtime">
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@ -780,6 +780,45 @@ env PGOPTIONS='-c geqo=off' psql
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<para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>COLLECT_STARTCOLLECTOR</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Controls whether the postmaster should start the statistics-collection
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subprocess. This is on by default, but may be turned off if you
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know you have no interest in collecting statistics. This option
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can only be set at postmaster start.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>COLLECT_RESETONPMSTART</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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If on, collected statistics are zeroed out whenever the postmaster
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is restarted. If off, statistics are accumulated across postmaster
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restarts. The default is on. This option
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can only be set at postmaster start.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>COLLECT_QUERYSTRING</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<term><varname>COLLECT_BLOCKLEVEL</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<term><varname>COLLECT_TUPLELEVEL</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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These flags determine what information backends send to the statistics
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collector process: current queries, block-level activity statistics,
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or tuple-level activity statistics. All default to off. Enabling
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statistics collection costs a small amount of time per query, but
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is invaluable for debugging and performance tuning.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>DEBUG_ASSERTIONS</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<primary>transaction isolation level</primary>
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</indexterm>
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<term><varname>DEFAUL_TRANSACTION_ISOLATION</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term>
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<term><varname>DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_ISOLATION</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Each SQL transaction has an isolation level, which can be
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>PASSWORD_ENCRYPTION</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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When a password is specified in <command>CREATE USER</> or
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<command>ALTER USER</> without writing either ENCRYPTED or
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UNENCRYPTED, this flag determines whether the password is encrypted.
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The default is off (do not encrypt the password), but this choice
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may change in a future release.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>TRANSFORM_NULL_EQUALS</varname> (<type>boolean</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Specifies the amount of memory to be used by internal sorts
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and hashes before resorting to temporary disk files. The value
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and hashes before switching to temporary disk files. The value
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is specified in kilobytes, and defaults to 512 kilobytes. Note
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that for a complex query, several sorts and/or hashes might be
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running in parallel, and each one will be allowed to use as
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>VACUUM_MEM</varname> (<type>integer</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Specifies the maximum amount of memory to be used by
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<command>VACUUM</command> to keep track of to-be-reclaimed tuples.
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The value is specified in kilobytes, and defaults to 8192 kilobytes.
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Larger settings may improve the speed of vacuuming large tables
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that have many deleted tuples.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term><varname>VIRTUAL_HOST</varname> (<type>string</type>)</term>
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<listitem>
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