Re: [PERFORM] index file bloating still in 7.4 ?

2003-10-19 Thread Seum-Lim Gan
Hi Tom, Thanks for info. I stoped the update and removed the process that's doing the update and did vacuum analyze. This time the result says the index row has been removed : vacuum verbose analyze dsperf_rda_or_key; INFO: vacuuming "scncraft.dsperf_rda_or_key" INFO: index "dsperf242_1105" now

Re: [PERFORM] index file bloating still in 7.4 ?

2003-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
Seum-Lim Gan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > vacuum verbose analyze dsperf_rda_or_key; > INFO: vacuuming "scncraft.dsperf_rda_or_key" > INFO: index "dsperf242_1105" now contains 30 row versions in 12387 pages > DETAIL: 3097702 index row versions were removed. > 0 index pages have been deleted,

Re: [PERFORM] index file bloating still in 7.4 ?

2003-10-19 Thread Seum-Lim Gan
Hi Tom, The key is a range from 1 to 3 and picked randomly. Oh, so in order to reclaim the disk space, we must run reindex or vacuum full ? This will lock out the table and we won't be able to do anything. Looks like this is a problem. It means we cannot use it for 24x7 operations without hav

Re: [PERFORM] index file bloating still in 7.4 ?

2003-10-19 Thread Josh Berkus
Gan, > Oh, so in order to reclaim the disk space, we must run > reindex or vacuum full ? > This will lock out the table and we won't be able to do anything. > Looks like this is a problem. It means we cannot use it for > 24x7 operations without having to stop the process and do the vacuum full > a