Re: autovacuum

From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com>
To: robert(at)webtent(dot)com
Cc: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists(at)webtent(dot)net>, PostgreSQL <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autovacuum
Date: 2007-09-20 20:27:47
Message-ID: 20070920162747.f5b29c4a.wmoran@potentialtech.com
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In response to Robert Fitzpatrick <lists(at)webtent(dot)net>:

> On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:22 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> > That doesn't mean you're vacuuming often enough, however. Switch your
> > nightly vacuum to vacuum verbose and capture the output to see how much
> > work it has to do. Are your fsm settings high enough?

<snip>

> INFO: free space map contains 30078 pages in 41 relations
> DETAIL: A total of 30304 page slots are in use (including overhead).
> 30304 page slots are required to track all free space.
> Current limits are: 204800 page slots, 1000 relations, using 1265 kB.

This was what I was most concerned about. If your FSM settings are too
low, vacuum won't be able to fully do its job. But it looks like you're
OK here.

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Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

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