Re: fsm and vacuum

From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>
To: "Little, Douglas" <DOUGLAS(dot)LITTLE(at)orbitz(dot)com>
Cc: PgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: fsm and vacuum
Date: 2010-12-03 15:50:05
Message-ID: 4CF911AD.5000507@lelarge.info
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Le 03/12/2010 16:19, Little, Douglas a écrit :
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> Sorry, outlook must of clobbered the table.
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> [cid:image001(dot)png(at)01CB92CB(dot)11EA5F60]
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> Pg_attribute has 513871 tuples and should take up 2135 pages. It's currently allocated to 98646 pages.
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> Given that much bloat, what would you suggest doing?
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> My guess is nothing. The fsm/vacuum process will reuse empty slots over time.
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There's 96% of bloat? VACUUM FULL is needed here. According to your
numbers, it means you have a 770MB table of which only 16MB are actual data.

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