Re: Warning about max_fsm_pages: what's that?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Reg Me Please <regmeplease(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Warning about max_fsm_pages: what's that?
Date: 2007-11-09 14:00:42
Message-ID: 20071109140042.GF2768@alvh.no-ip.org
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Reg Me Please wrote:
> Hi all.
> During a routine "VACUUM ANALYZE" I've got this message in the logs:
>
> WARNING: relation "public.t_dati" contains more than "max_fsm_pages" pages
> with useful free space
> HINT: Consider compacting this relation or increasing the configuration
> parameter "max_fsm_pages".
>
>
> The table in question contains some 14M+ rows.
>
> Would it be possible to get some reference or suggestion in order to
> understand better the provided hint?

See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/runtime-config-resource.html

In order to answer these kind of questions yourself, consider
http://search.postgresql.org/?q=max_fsm_pages

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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