Re: Vacuum full considered useful ;)

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: Patric de Waha <lists(at)p-dw(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Vacuum full considered useful ;)
Date: 2007-07-14 16:34:18
Message-ID: 4698FB0A.4070502@lelarge.info
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Joshua D. Drake a écrit :
>
>> No wonder, I got IO problems with such a fragmentation.
>>
>> For people not very familiar with postgres especially those coming
>> from mysql,
>> i'd recommend paying attention to this.
>
> Definitely. The problem here is that you just aren't vacuuming enough,
> not that you didn't vacuum full. I would suggest reviewing autovacuum
> and seeing if that will help you.
>

And paying attention to the max_fsm_pages setting. A value too low won't
help vacuum's work.

Regards.

--
Guillaume.
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