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VacuumDelay

Short Description

Waiting in a cost-based vacuum delay point

Additional Information​

The VacuumDelay wait is seen when cost-based vacuum is being used. The parameters used will throttle the vacuum behaviour to reduce it’s resource consumption.

How to reduce this wait​

Adjust vacuum_cost_delay, vacuum_cost_page_hit, vacuum_cost_page_miss, vacuum_cost_page_dirty and vacuum_cost_limit parameters to control the vacuum load.

PostgreSQL docs - Cost Based Vacuum Delay

PostgreSQL docs - Wait Events of Type Activity

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