Re: table size growing out of control - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: table size growing out of control
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Msg-id 19027.1026843208@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: table size growing out of control  ("Gregory Wood" <gregw@com-stock.com>)
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"Gregory Wood" <gregw@com-stock.com> writes:
>> If your overall database is large then you might need to increase the
>> size of the free space map (see postgresql.conf).

> I haven't seen any good documentation on what exactly this does, how the
> settings affect performance, or recommended values.

> Does this information exist anywhere?

Nope.  Feel free to run some experiments and create some recommendations
;-)

            regards, tom lane

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