postgresql: drop per-database autovacuum ALTERs (rejected by Postgres)

Follow-up to the previous two commits: the ALTER DATABASE ... SET
autovacuum_* commands fail at boot with

  ERROR: parameter "autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor" cannot be changed now

and take matrix-synapse-db-tune.service (and nextcloud-db-init.service)
down with them.

Root cause: ALTER DATABASE/ROLE ... SET validates through
set_config_option() with an interactive context, and guc.c rejects any
PGC_SIGHUP parameter set that way. All autovacuum_* GUCs are
SIGHUP-context, so per-database scoping is impossible for them — only
USERSET-level parameters (e.g. work_mem, statement_timeout) can be set
per-database.

Nothing is lost: the same values are already set cluster-wide in
configuration.nix, which covers both nextclouddb and matrix-synapse.
Remove the ALTERs from nextcloud-db-init and delete the now-purposeless
matrix-synapse-db-tune service.
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Sovran Contributor
2026-09-21 14:21:01 -05:00
committed by naturallaw777
parent e31094c194
commit 8bc325b148
2 changed files with 5 additions and 34 deletions
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@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ lib.mkIf config.sovran_systemsOS.services.nextcloud {
psql -U postgres -c "CREATE DATABASE nextclouddb WITH OWNER ncusr TEMPLATE template0 LC_COLLATE = 'C' LC_CTYPE = 'C';"
fi
# Per-database autovacuum, scoped to nextclouddb only.
# The shared matrix-synapse DB keeps the milder cluster defaults.
# Fixes Nextcloud 35 pg.dead_tuples warning. Idempotent.
psql -U postgres -d nextclouddb -c "ALTER DATABASE nextclouddb SET autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor = '0.05';"
psql -U postgres -d nextclouddb -c "ALTER DATABASE nextclouddb SET autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = '0.025';"
# NOTE: autovacuum GUCs are SIGHUP-context, so they cannot be set
# per-database ALTER DATABASE ... SET rejects them with
# 'parameter "..." cannot be changed now'. They are set
# cluster-wide in configuration.nix instead, which already covers
# both nextclouddb and matrix-synapse.
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};