Re: Massive table bloat - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Markus Wollny
Subject Re: Massive table bloat
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Msg-id 28011CD60FB1724DBA4442E38277F6260F917AB9@hermes.computec.de
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In response to Re: Massive table bloat  (Thom Brown <thombrown@gmail.com>)
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Thom Brown [mailto:thombrown@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. März 2010 16:56
> An: Markus Wollny
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] Massive table bloat

> If you update rows, it actually creates a new version of it.
> The old one doesn't get removed until the VACUUM process
> cleans it up, so maybe you need to run that against the database?

I already do on a nightly basis (which is probably not often enough in this case) and have got autovacuum running. I'll
checkinto FSM settings as suggested by Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz, there's probably half a solution to the problem there, the
otherhalf being probably the autovacuum daemon not visiting this table nearly often enough. 

Kind regards

  Markus


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