Re: [ADMIN] max_fsm_pages Sanity Check

2003-01-02 Thread HT Levine
o you. > > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 13:12, HT Levine wrote: > > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > > > > 1. You don't need to take down the DB to do vacuuming. > > > > > > when I tried the vacuum with the site sti

Re: [ADMIN] max_fsm_pages Sanity Check

2002-12-30 Thread HT Levine
CTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "HT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We have quite large production Postgres 7.2 DB which is out of control in > > terms of disk consumption. We made it thru the holiday shopping season,

[ADMIN] max_fsm_pages Sanity Check

2002-12-28 Thread HT
Background: We have quite large production Postgres 7.2 DB which is out of control in terms of disk consumption. We made it thru the holiday shopping season, but it isn't over yet. We have taken the DB down once for a vacuum analyze but only vacuum'd 2 large tables which took FIVE HOURS WITH

Re: [ADMIN] HELP? Postgres filling up disk

2002-12-19 Thread HT
will do! I'll let you know how it goes but it will be after xmas cause we can have no down-time right now. thanks! "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > "HT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

Re: [ADMIN] HELP? Postgres filling up disk

2002-12-19 Thread HT
table users from database "EBPRDS1": ___ 3828262123 = users $ ls -l 3828262123* -rw--- 1 postgres postgres 1073741824 Dec 18 23:08 3828262123 -rw--- 1 postgres postgres 558899200 Dec 18 23:16 3828262123.1 "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTEC

[ADMIN] HELP? Postgres filling up disk

2002-12-18 Thread HT Levine
I posted over the weekend about this issue under the subject of "VACUUM"  but the replies I got did not help.  We have several large tables which seem to be taking 4 times as much disk space as they should?   Let me give a little background:   Every night, we do a pg_dump of our production

[ADMIN] Followup Question about Vacuum from newsgroup

2002-12-16 Thread HT Levine
HI All,   I found the following posting about Vacuum in the postgres.admin newsgroup (see below my question)   I have the same problem:   We are using HUGE amounts of diskspace in our production database, but the standby (created daily from a pgdump / pg_restore of our production server) 

Re: [ADMIN] Followup Question about Vacuum from newsgroup

2002-12-15 Thread HT
below? Thanks so much! "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > HT Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My suspicion is that there are pg_toast_x files left in the base > > directory?If I

[ADMIN] Followup Question about Vacuum from newsgroup

2002-12-15 Thread HT Levine
My apologies if this posted twice...   HI All,   I found the following posting about Vacuum in the postgres.admin newsgroup (see below my question)   I have the same problem:   We are using HUGE amounts of diskspace in our production database, but the standby (created daily from a pgdump