Re: full vacuum - resources - scaling - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: full vacuum - resources - scaling
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Msg-id 20060530145828.GB20300@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to full vacuum - resources - scaling  ("Mr. Dan" <bitsandbytes88@hotmail.com>)
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On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:44:22AM -0400, Mr. Dan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that my full vacuum and re-index script is taking a day and
> a half instead of 1/2 day.
> Recently, the size of my database cluster has doubled to 130 GB.   Would
> anyone recommend increasing one or more of these to help get my full
> vacuums to run a little faster?

What Alvaro said.  I'll also point out, however, that in my
experience, VACUUM FULL time does not increase linearly with database
size.  I suspect this is because of the cost of reorganising so much
more data, but I haven't done any real analysis of it.

The main thing is, "Don't do vacuum full."

A
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