Re: [PERFORM] Performance, vacuum and reclaiming space, fsm

2003-10-13 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SD" == Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SD> If you have 150MB type of data as you said last time, you could SD> take a pg_dump of database, drop the database and recreate it. By SD> all chances it will take less time than compacting a database from SD> 2GB to 150MB. That's i

Re: [PERFORM] Performance, vacuum and reclaiming space, fsm

2003-10-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Monday 13 October 2003 19:22, Seum-Lim Gan wrote: > I am not sure I can do the full vacuum. > If my system is doing updates in realtime and needs to be > ok 24 hours and 7 days a week non-stop, once I do > vacuum full, even on that table, that table will > get locked out and any quiery or update

Re: [PERFORM] Performance, vacuum and reclaiming space, fsm

2003-10-13 Thread Seum-Lim Gan
I am not sure I can do the full vacuum. If my system is doing updates in realtime and needs to be ok 24 hours and 7 days a week non-stop, once I do vacuum full, even on that table, that table will get locked out and any quiery or updates that come in will timeout. Any suggestion on what to do besid

Re: [PERFORM] Performance, vacuum and reclaiming space, fsm

2003-10-13 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Seum-Lim Gan wrote: I have a table that keeps being updated and noticed that after a few days, the disk usage has growned to from just over 150 MB to like 2 GB ! Hmm... You have quite a lot of wasted space there.. I followed the recommendations from the various search of the archives, changed the m

Re: [PERFORM] Performance, vacuum and reclaiming space, fsm

2003-10-13 Thread Peter Childs
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Seum-Lim Gan wrote: > Hi, > > I did a search in the discussion lists and found several > pointers about setting the max_fsm_relations and pages. > > I have a table that keeps being updated and noticed > that after a few days, the disk usage has growned to > from just over 15