Re: [ADMIN] Data Partition is Growing

2004-09-30 Thread Mike Darretta
Thanks. I'll investigate and let you know how things go Mike Tom Lane wrote: Mike Darretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm an application developer trying to understand a pg data partition issue. We are storing large objects (gifs) at a rate of about 1GIG /day. After about a week, most of

Re: [ADMIN] Data Partition is Growing

2004-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
... forgot to mention ... Mike Darretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are running Postgres 7.4 with the incremental vacuum process active. Also make sure you have an up-to-date version of pg_autovacuum. The early releases had bugs that could prevent it from vacuuming very large tables at all

Re: [ADMIN] Data Partition is Growing

2004-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Darretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm an application developer trying to understand a pg data partition > issue. We are storing large objects (gifs) at a rate of about 1GIG /day. > After about a week, most of the objects are recycled -- that is, an > insert triggers a delete of a simil

[ADMIN] Data Partition is Growing

2004-09-29 Thread Mike Darretta
I'm an application developer trying to understand a pg data partition issue. We are storing large objects (gifs) at a rate of about 1GIG /day. After about a week, most of the objects are recycled -- that is, an insert triggers a delete of a similar object. The postgres data partition, though, c