From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Jim Mercer <jim(at)reptiles(dot)org> |
Cc: | gjerde(at)icebox(dot)org, gd(at)pinmail(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Large database |
Date: | 1999-08-17 17:19:52 |
Message-ID: | 199908171719.NAA02075@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > > it would be nice if vacuum could figure out if an extent is no longer
> > > in use, and delete it.
> > >
> > > currently, we need to dump the table, then nuke it and restore it.
> >
> > We tried removing the extra extent, but the other backends needed it
> > around because there was no way to tell them that the extra extent file
> > descriptor was useless. You could just stop the postmaster, and delete
> > the zero-length extents, if you really wanted to. Do the extra extent
> > files cause problems for you? If so, we can start to look at some
> > postmaster cleanup of those.
>
> i haven't actually seen the system reduce a numbered extent.
>
> i could be wrong.
You mean it never gets smaller, or never removes it. It currently
doesn't remove it, but vacuum should make then zero size when they are
not needed.
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