In the past I've seen the console and puppetdb databases grow
much larger than expected and I have a hypothesis that this is
because the default 20% setting for autovacuum is too high for our
workload. So, there's a potential that changing this to 1%
might be too low and might reduce performance but it should
reduce disk usage and it can always be tuned upward if the
performance hit is too large, however, it is much more difficult
to reduce the size of a database after it has grown too large.
Basically, I'm erroring on the side of using less disk space and
hopefully less outages due to running out of disk space and we
can open a conversation on performance later if one needs to be had.
