> [szepe@pinerecords.com]
>
> > Peter Childs <blue.dragon@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> > > On Fri, 30 May 2003, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > >> Trouble is, as the rows in the tables get deleted/inserted/updated
> > >> (the frequency being a couple thousand rows per minute), the database
> > >> is growing out of proportion in size.
> >
> > > Would more regular vacuum help. I think a vaccum every hour may do
> > > the job.
> >
> > Also note that no amount of vacuuming will save you if the FSM is not
> > large enough to keep track of all the free space. The default FSM
> > settings, like all the other default settings in Postgres, are set up
> > for a small installation. You'd probably need to raise them by at least
> > a factor of 10 for this installation.
>
> Thanks, I'll try to tweak those settings and will let the list know how
> things went.
Well, raising max_fsm_pages to 500000 seems to have solved the problem
entirely. My thanks go to everyone who've offered their help.
--
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
