[ADMIN] autovacuum questions v2

2008-11-02 Thread Alexander Strotmann
Hello community, we are running a CRM system with Postgres database (version 8.3). To organize handwritten contracts we save them scanned as LOBs. Normally they are unlinked in case of deleting them. However we run a cron job which does vacuumlo to get save that there is nothing in the

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum questions v2

2008-11-02 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Alexander Strotmann a écrit : [...] we are running a CRM system with Postgres database (version 8.3). To organize handwritten contracts we save them scanned as LOBs. Normally they are unlinked in case of deleting them. However we run a cron job which does vacuumlo to get save that there is

[ADMIN] autovacuum questions

2008-10-31 Thread Isabella Ghiurea
Hello Gurus, I'm new to PG , running PG 8.3 on Linux and reading trough docs is mentioned that in PG vers 8.3 an AUTO vacuum process has been implemented which will run full vacuum on all user and system tables + analyze and there is NO need fro DBA to schedule a crontab job to run

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum questions

2008-10-31 Thread Rafael Domiciano
Hello there, Yes, the autovacuum is set on by default on the PG 8.3. The vacuum is not full, to run a full vacuum you need to set a cron job; better to run at the night. I don't set autovacuum on the production databases, only in the Slony's slave machines and in the developmente machine. For

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum questions

2008-10-31 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Rafael Domiciano escribió: The vacuum is not full, to run a full vacuum you need to set a cron job; better to run at the night. Doing VACUUM FULL on crontab is rarely a good idea. If you find yourself in a situation where you need VACUUM FULL, then you've not tuned regular vacuum

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum questions

2008-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafael Domiciano escribió: The vacuum is not full, to run a full vacuum you need to set a cron job; better to run at the night. Doing VACUUM FULL on crontab is rarely a good idea. If you find yourself in a situation