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maintenance_io_concurrency
Similar to effective_io_concurrency, but used for maintenance work that is done on behalf of many client sessions. The default is 16. This value can be overridden for tables in a particular tablespace by setting the tablespace parameter of the same name (see ALTER TABLESPACE).
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- boot val
- 16
- category
- Resource Usage / I/O
- context
- user
- documented
- true
- enumvals
- Unknown
- extra desc
- 0 disables simultaneous requests.
- lang
- en
- max val
- 1000
- metadata version
- 18
- min val
- 0
- name
- maintenance_io_concurrency
- short desc
- A variant of "effective_io_concurrency" that is used for maintenance work.
- source
- pg-settings-source-snapshot
- unit
- Unknown
- vartype
- integer
Definition PG 18
Similar to effective_io_concurrency, but used for maintenance work that is done on behalf of many client sessions. The default is 16. This value can be overridden for tables in a particular tablespace by setting the tablespace parameter of the same name (see ALTER TABLESPACE).
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center · PostgreSQL 18 · wiki-repair-20261023:078e4376da6f92d72e36f8524d3b7a42f42dce461587909e2a5e7d6aa429ee4f
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