| From: | Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Jeffrey W(dot) Baker" <jwb(at)saturn5(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, John Gray <jgray(at)azuli(dot)co(dot)uk>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: pg_toast table growth out of control |
| Date: | 2002-03-11 22:07:19 |
| Message-ID: | 200203112207.g2BM7JX28692@saturn.janwieck.net |
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Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 13:30, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > The best cure for a problem is avoiding it. I would suggest
> > running the light weight VACUUM more often, so that it
> > doesn't grow that big in the first place.
>
> I think everybody is missing my point. This entire database is vacuumed
> every HOUR. All the tables are reasonably sized, and they stay that
> way. Except, the magic pg_toast table where long objects from resp_body
> are store is growing and growing and growing and growing and does not
> seem to respond to VACUUM whatsoever.
You actually did a VACUUM FULL and it didn't shrink? In 7.2
no table does shrink on a normal VACUUM. So if you don't run
VACUUM FULL, it cannot!
Jan
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