From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Szabolcs BALLA <szabolcs(dot)balla(at)confinsystems(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Vacuum is needed or not? |
Date: | 2006-01-13 19:18:47 |
Message-ID: | 20060113191847.GK9017@pervasive.com |
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:21:19PM -0500, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Szabolcs BALLA <szabolcs(dot)balla(at)confinsystems(dot)com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > How do I know vacuum is need or not? I mean, are there any query to know
> > status of statistics, tables, indexes, etc?
>
> at least, once every billion transactions to be safe...
>
> > (7.4.7)
> > Our database size bigger than just go and do it. :(
> >
>
> ahh... then execute it once a week or once a day, for avoid excessive growing...
Even once a day can be awefully conservative for many databases. Keep in
mind that every single row that is updated or deleted will hang around
in the database until you vacuum; on a busy system that can result in a
lot of wasted space. And once the bloat is there, it can be hard to get
rid of.
7.4.7 has contrib/pg_autovacuum, and I highly recommend it. Also,
http://lnk.nu/pervasive-postgres.com/7m4.asp and
http://lnk.nu/pervasive-postgres.com/7jd.asp might be interesting reads
for you.
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