Re: [PERFORM] About the relation between fragmentation of file and

2005-12-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 02:50:56PM +0900, Tatsumi Abe wrote: Could anyone advise some solutions for this fragmentation problem without stopping PostgreSQL ? Stop doing VACUUM FULL so often. If your table size is constant anyway you're just wasting time by compacting the table and shrinking it,

Re: [PERFORM] About the relation between fragmentation of file and VACUUM

2005-12-01 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Dec 1, 2005, at 00:50, Tatsumi Abe wrote: However, In my current environment I can't stop PostgreSQL and cancel fragmentation. Could anyone advise some solutions for this fragmentation problem without stopping PostgreSQL ? This is somewhat of an aside and intended just as a helpful

Re: [PERFORM] About the relation between fragmentation of file and

2005-12-01 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Richard Huxton wrote: Tatsumi Abe wrote: Question is about the relation between fragmentation of file and VACUUM performance. Environment OS:RedHat Enterprise Linux AS Release 3(Taroon Update 6) Kernel 2.4.21-37.ELsmp on an i686 Filesystem Type ext3 Filesystem