Re: Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

On Monday 04 August 2008 11:04:00 pm Robert Shaw wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to get to the bottom of the differences between a vacuum
> and a vacuum full, it seems to me that the difference is that a vacuum full
> also recovers disk space(and locks things making it less than useful on
> production servers). But I believe that both will fix the transaction
> ID(example message below).
>
> "WARNING: database "mydb" must be vacuumed within 177009986 transactions
> HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a full-database VACUUM in
> "mydb"."Which is reason I ask the question, is full vacuum backup useful
> for anything other than reclaiming disk space.
>
> On a side note, we doubled our page slots, but they ran out much faster(of
> course) than we thought, is there a good sql statement that can tell you
> what your current transaction ID is?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>

Actually its not asking for a VACUUM FULL but a VACUUM of the full database,
instead of selected tables.

See below for complete details
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND

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Adrian Klaver
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