Re: [GENERAL] Data Directory size increasing abnormally

2009-11-18 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
> A strange behaviour is observerd in the physical files with respect to > this table. The size of the file is growing abnormally in GBs. Suppose > the file name (oid of relation )with respect to the table is "18924" I > could find entries of 1 GB files like 18924, 18924.1, 18924.2 , > 18924.3..

Re: [GENERAL] Data Directory size increasing abnormally

2009-11-17 Thread Reid Thompson
utsav wrote: Dear All, I am using postgres 7.3 version on RHEL 4.0. You should upgrade to a newer/the latest stable release The commanddata field consists of binary data of a txt file whose size is between 1kb to 4kb and there is a high frequecy of updates on this table (approx twice in a

Re: [GENERAL] Data Directory size increasing abnormally

2009-11-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
Note that with pgsql, the older the version you're running, the greater your pgsql-fu must be to keep it happy. With autovacuum and more efficient vacuuming all around in later versions, your simple first step is to upgrade to 8.4.1 or 8.3.8 as soon as possible. Until then, dump / reload that tab

Re: [GENERAL] Data Directory size increasing abnormally

2009-11-17 Thread John R Pierce
utsav wrote: The commanddata field consists of binary data of a txt file whose size is between 1kb to 4kb and there is a high frequecy of updates on this table (approx twice in a sec) A strange behaviour is observerd in the physical files with respect to this table. The size of the file is gr

[GENERAL] Data Directory size increasing abnormally

2009-11-17 Thread utsav
Dear All, I am using postgres 7.3 version on RHEL 4.0. I have a table pdbsynchtable with the following structure caption varchar(1020) NOT NULL, uid varchar(255) NOT NULL, destination varchar(1020) NOT NULL, commanddata text NOT NULL, command varchar(50) NOT NULL, transactionid va