Re: Press Release

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Press Release
Date: 2003-10-30 01:02:02
Message-ID: 1067475721.8672.51.camel@jester
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On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:57, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >Why are you running a vacuum full -- forgot to do a regular vacuum often
> >enough?
> >
> No because if we don't run a vacuum full on this (actually a couple of)
> machine
> then the machine slows down to a crawl over time. Vacuums are run every
> 4 or 5 hours
> and a vacuum full every night.
>
> I am obviously missing something and relying on past knowledge.

Yup.. Sounds like fsm is too low. Bump it up an order of magnitude and
vacuum hourly instead -- drop the FULL.

> >PostgreSQL also won't be answering queries if I unplug the
> >machine it is on, toss it into the back of a plane and fly it to another
> >data centre.
> >
> O.k. this was a ridiculous analogy.

Not really.. I see to do the data centre move more often than a VACUUM
FULL.

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