On Thursday July 24 2003 2:53, Ed L. wrote:
> I have a frequently updated table called 'audit' with 10,000 rows of
> about 90kb per row (90kb * 10k = 900mb). There is a 35gb system table
> called pg_toast_NNNNN where NNNNN is the oid of the 'audit' table.
>
> My question: should I expect a 'vacuum full' to shrink the size of this
> pg_toast table? I ask instead of just doing it because doing so would
> require scheduling customer downtime since 'vacuum full' blocks access.
BTW, we currently run 'analyze' every 2 hours and vacuum once daily on this
7.3.2 cluster....
TIA.
