Re: db growing out of proportion
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-05-30T22:59:39Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs, pgsql-performance
> [tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us] > > Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk> writes: > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote: > >> Trouble is, as the rows in the tables get deleted/inserted/updated > >> (the frequency being a couple thousand rows per minute), the database > >> is growing out of proportion in size. > > > Would more regular vacuum help. I think a vaccum every hour may do > > the job. > > Also note that no amount of vacuuming will save you if the FSM is not > large enough to keep track of all the free space. The default FSM > settings, like all the other default settings in Postgres, are set up > for a small installation. You'd probably need to raise them by at least > a factor of 10 for this installation. Thanks, I'll try to tweak those settings and will let the list know how things went. -- Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>