Tim Perdue wrote: > I had this same problem with 7.1.x, even doing full vacuums on > SourceForge.net last year. > > I assumed after a while that there was some hidden bug where file bloat > occurred, despite the vacuum. After 3 months or so, you'd have to > dump/restore the entire db and you'd be golden for a while again. After > the dump/restore process things seemed much snappier too, and vacuum ran > almost instantly. > > I haven't verified if this problem still occurs in 7.2.x, using vacuum full.
Tim, I guess your problem is dead index pages that can't be reclaimed, and it isn't fixed in 7.3. Only REINDEX fixes it, and we have a /contrib/reindexdb script in 7.3. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
