Re: VACUUM FULL on 24/7 server

Tom Lane wrote:
> Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
>
>>Christopher Browne wrote:
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>>>>Assuming that the tables in question aren't so large that they cause
>>>>mass eviction of buffers, it should suffice to do a plain VACUUM (and
>>>>NOT a "VACUUM FULL") on the tables in question quite frequently.
>
>
>>This is easy to say and almost impraticable. I run a 7.4.5 with the autovacuum:
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>>pg_autovacuum -d 3 -v 300 -V 0.5 -S 0.8 -a 200 -A 0.8
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> I'm not very familiar at all with appropriate settings for autovacuum,
> but doesn't the above say to vacuum a table only when the dead space
> reaches 50%? That seems awfully lax to me. I've always thought one
> should vacuum often enough to keep dead space to maybe 10 to 25%.

The problem is that I can not set these value per table and per database
so, I had to find some compromise, however I will test in the next days
what happen with -V 0.2

However each six hour I perform a vacuum on all database and the HD space
continue to grow even with FSM parameters large enough.

I'll post in a couple of day about the new settings.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola