Re: the right time to vacuum database?

From: "Charles(dot)Hou" <ivan(dot)hou(at)msa(dot)hinet(dot)net>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: the right time to vacuum database?
Date: 2007-06-08 13:29:55
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On Jun 8, 1:46 am, a(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca (Andrew Sullivan) wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:07:03AM -0700, Charles.Hou wrote:
> > i use the VACUUM VERBOSE a table , but it had been hold 10 minutes . i
> > must use the linux command " kill " to exit the VACUUM.
> > after i kill this PID, the PostgreSql have been restart
> > automatically.
>
> Maybe it was doing work. Why did you kill it? If there is a problem
> on that table, I wouldn't be surprised that it'd take 10 minutes.
> You just caused all the work it started to do to be undone, and to
> cause more bloat. But. . .
>
> > DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.
>
> . . . this suggests you don't have bloat on that table at least. So
> it sounds to me like your disk use is going up because you have a lot
> of data.
>
> A
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i have traced the size of the table. About 1000 new rows will be
inserted into the table in one day. each row has 300 bytes.
1000*300/1024=293K, but the size of this table had been increased 3MB.
3MB-293K=2.7MB...Why?where is the 2.7MB?

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