Re: [ADMIN] please please please PLEASE help!

2004-08-01 Thread Steve
Rob Bamber wrote: Another thought - We had a similar issue recently. Our support guys dropped the database and then rebuilt it from a dump file. The size of the data directory went down from 12GB to less than 2GB. According to the sys ad that did the work postgres is not very good a rec

Re: [ADMIN] please please please PLEASE help!

2004-08-01 Thread Steve
Kris Kiger wrote: Steve, Are the three SCSI drives raided? If so, I would move the operating database to that machine. From what I understand it can be a real hassle to setup/maintain sym-linked tables. If you don't have the option to move the database, I would explore one of these two ro