Re: Is there a reason _not_ to vacuum continuously?

(I've sent him reindexdb off-list)

Chris

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Oliver Scheit wrote:

> >> > It's part of postgresql 7.3. Just get it from the 7.3
> >> > contrib dir - it works fine with 7.2
> >> That's nice to hear. Thanx for that info.
>
> > That's alright - cron job it for once a month - that's what
> > I do. Basically the problem is that in certain cases
> > (monotonically increasing serial indexes) for instance,
> > PosgreSQL < 7.4 is unable to fully reclaim all the
> > space after a page split. This means that your indexes
> > just gradually grow really large.
>
> Uhm, I'm unable to find reindexdb. I have postgres 7.3.4
> on another server, but there's no reindexdb. Can you point
> me to the right direction?
>
> Here's what's installed on that machine:
> # rpm -qa|grep postgres
> postgresql-perl-7.2.3-5.73
> postgresql-libs-7.3.4-2PGDG
> postgresql-pl-7.3.4-2PGDG
> postgresql-7.3.4-2PGDG
> postgresql-contrib-7.3.4-2PGDG
> postgresql-server-7.3.4-2PGDG
>
> > Yeah - 7.4 beta3 will be out very shortly, you'll probably
> > have to wait a month or so for a final 7.4 release.
>
> Old version is rockstable and quite fast, so no problem with
> that.
>
> > Even then, ugprading postgresql is always a pain in the neck.
>
> Upgrading to 7.3.4 was quite easy here. dumped the dbs,
> uninstalled 7.2, installed 7.3 and let it read the dump. done.
>
> regards,
> Oli
>
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