Re: toast table growing indefinitely? Known

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: toast table growing indefinitely? Known
Date: 2002-12-02 20:36:41
Message-ID: 1038861401.46704.86.camel@jester
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> > I've increased the value to 40000 since we have much busier days, and I'll
> > se what happens.
>
> Hang on - so when vacuum runs it knows exactly how many pages it cleaned up
> but if the fsm value is low, it doesn't help? Why don't we just
> automaticlaly set the FSM value to the max that vacuum has to clean up? Why
> don't we introduce: max_fsm_pages = auto or something?

I assume it uses shared memory, so I doubt it's very easy to increase on
the fly -- without having to reduce something else anyway.

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Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>

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