A few weeks ago I covered the basics of tuning checkpoints, and in that post I also mentioned autovacuum as the second common source of performance issues (based on what we see on the mailing list and at our customers). Let me follow-up on that with this post about how to tune autovacuum, to minimize the risk of performance issues. In this post I'll briefly explain why we even need autovacuum (dead rows, bloat and how autovacuum deals with it), and then move to the main focus of this blog post - tuning. I’ll go over all the relevant configuration options, and some basic rules for tuning them
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