Re: Eliminating VACUUM FULL WAS: remove flatfiles.c

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: daveg(at)sonic(dot)net
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Eliminating VACUUM FULL WAS: remove flatfiles.c
Date: 2009-09-04 18:37:24
Message-ID: 4AA15E64.9020308@agliodbs.com
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All,

>>> I have a client who uses temp tables heavily, hundreds of thousands of
>>> creates
>>> and drops per day. They also have long running queries. The only
thing that
>>> keeps catalog bloat somewhat in check is vacuum full on bloated catalogs
>>> a few times a day. With

Actually, this is a good point ... if we dropped VACUUM FULL, we'd need
to also be able to call CLUSTER (or VACUUM REWRITE) on the system catalogs.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

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