Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > Good morning. > > On occasion I’ll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? Wait, is this a

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:10 PM To: Hartman, Matthew Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > Good morning. > > > > On occasion I'll perform a full vacuum on

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page writes: > pgAdmin will advise vacuuming a table if there is a significant > discrepancy between the number of rows in the table and the value in > pg_class.reltuples. i forget the exact algorithm off-hand, but it > takes the size of the table into account, and is looking for a %age > dif

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
ement, ICP Kingston General Hospital (613) 549- x4294 -Original Message- From: Dave Page [mailto:dp...@pgadmin.org] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:00 PM To: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz Cc: Hartman, Matthew; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > Good morning. > > > > On occasion I’ll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? As of 8.3,

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Dave Page
2009/6/25 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > 2009/6/25 Hartman, Matthew : >> Windows XP, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, using pgAdmin III 1.8.4. It's the typical >> "Running vacuum on this table is recommended" dialog box. > > Well, it really has nothing to do with postgresql it self. Either it > is a bug or property of

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2009/6/25 Hartman, Matthew : > Windows XP, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, using pgAdmin III 1.8.4. It's the typical > "Running vacuum on this table is recommended" dialog box. Well, it really has nothing to do with postgresql it self. Either it is a bug or property of PgAdmin, but I don't know. Either someone

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
gorz Jaśkiewicz [mailto:gryz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 11:25 AM To: Hartman, Matthew Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > On occasion I'll per

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > On occasion I’ll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? What's the exact message, what OS

[GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
Good morning. On occasion I'll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full database vacuum not handle each individual table? Thanks, Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP Ki