Kristian Eide wrote: > Thanks, very helpful, although there does not seem to be much description of > what the two free space map options in postgresql.conf actually do. Doing a > VACUUM ANALYZE VERBOSE on my largest table gives me: > > NOTICE: Pages 43681: Changed 208, Empty 0; Tup 1921387: Vac 61669, Keep 0, > UnUsed 1362341. > > I will try to increase the 'max_fsm_pages' option from 10000 to 500000 and > see if that helps. >
Note that you'll need to do a vacuum full *first* to recover the lost space, since the free space map is populated as the tuples are actually freed, I believe. After that you can adjust 'max_fsm_pages' and your vacuum frequency to achieve an equilibrium. Joe ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])