From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
Cc: | Jason Godden <jasongodden(at)optushome(dot)com(dot)au>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Growing Database Size Solved |
Date: | 2003-06-14 16:59:01 |
Message-ID: | 8269.1055609941@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> writes:
> On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 18:57:42 +1000,
> Jason Godden <jasongodden(at)optushome(dot)com(dot)au> wrote:
>> My mistake - even though I was running VACUUM everyday I wasn't running VACUUM
>> FULL - a VACUUM FULL fixed the problem. Strange - I thought that regular
>> VACUUM was pretty good these days?
> You need to make sure that FSM is set high enough
The default FSM settings are good for a database of up to maybe 100mb
or so. For your 2Gb database you probably need to ratchet max_fsm_pages
up by about a factor of 10, and make sure that max_fsm_relations is big
enough for all your tables too.
regards, tom lane
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