In response to "Kynn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hi.  I have a database that is created and populated by a Perl script.
>  (FWIW, the size of this database is about 12GB, according to
> pg_database_size()).
> 
> If, right after the database is built, I connect to it and manually run
> VACUUM ANALYZE, I get the warning
> 
> NOTICE:  max_fsm_relations(1000) equals the number of relations checked
> HINT:  You have at least 1000 relations.  Consider increasing the
> configuration parameter "max_fsm_relations".
> 
> I find this puzzling because the database has only 120 relations.

How many other databases do you have on that server?  fsm_relations has
to track all relations in all databases.

> Is there a way I can structure the populating of the database to get rid of
> this message?  E.g. would it help to have the script run VACUUM after it
> populates each new table?

No.  If that parameter is too low you need to raise it, period.

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Bill Moran
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