Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production database - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production database
Date
Msg-id 10244.1133570835@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production  (Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>)
Responses Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production
List pgsql-hackers
Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> writes:
> Since this database has many large, but static tables (i.e. new data is 
> loaded each day, but the tables are partitioned into year-month tables), 
> I'm thinking we can run VACUUM FREEZE on the whole database once, and 
> then run VACUUM FREEZE periodically on just the tables that have had 
> rows added since the last time -- is that correct?

That would work for the user tables, but the lesson to draw from this is
not to forget about the system catalogs ...
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Optimizer oddness, possibly compounded in 8.1
Next
From: Joe Conway
Date:
Subject: Re: strange behavior (corruption?) of large production